Quick tip, especially if you're a power user or want to be sure you can get into your system in case of technical issues (especially important on a rolling system): Do NOT set your Grub to zero, set it to like 2, or maybe 1 second. I have mine set to 2 on all systems and that's not actually that long. The extra 2 seconds for the peace of mind is worth it for me, but of course, to each their own.
This is what I always do too, this way if you have to boot the system from a snapshot it is easier and faster, although I believe that grub can also be invoked from the keyboard.
Snapper list can be almost instant. You mentioned that after 250-odd days, the snapper list command was taking a long time on your machine. This is because of the "Used Space" column - the size of the snapshot is calculated every time `snapper list` is run. Turn off this calculation with `snapper list --disable-used-space`, or you can use --columns with most commands to specify exactly which columns to show.
Every time I've used OpenSuSE, if I have selected every repository in the installation process, the correct NVIDIA drivers are selected for install the first time I run Yast. It's quite an easy process. Anyway, nice video Matt
Great explanation thx. Suse TW is my daily driver like it because is rolling and stable too. I’m using Arch also but we know it needs sometimes a little bit intervention.
The relevant distinction between zypper up (update) and dup (dist-upgrade) is how it defines what changes zypper will propose. Update will only propose updates which do not cause conflicts (needing to be resolved) or involve vendor changes. Think about simple, consistent vertical updates within each vendor group. Dist-upgrade is 'safeties off', anything which will allow all the latest version of every package in all enabled repos to be installed. Upgrades, downgrades, removing packages, breaking packages' dependencies, no holds barred. In most cases, there won't be a single way to solve this request, so you end up in conflict resolution, package by package.
I've tried out OpenSuse Tumbleweed and what turned me off of it was Zypper, kinda wished I had seen a video of how to make Zypper faster lol. Anyways, this was very informative and entertaining, Matt! Keep up the good work.
You've really gotten me interested in openSUSE. I'm not much of a distro hopper but I've been feeling the urge to switch (for reasons too boring to mention), and openSUSE is increasingly seeming like something I should consider. I'm getting a new laptop soon, and I think I will probably install openSUSE on it to start, and see how that goes. If it goes well I may switch on my workstation.
Thanks for going over Snapper, loving OpenSUSE w KDE so much. Also the grub delay was spot on, had mine disabled early too. Those precious 8 seconds are mine again 😂
Great to see you making a lot of openSUSE content. SuSE Linux has been my first distro - think around 6.3 days - and I came back to openSUSE this year with a vengeance. TW is now installed on all of my machines...
Thanks for details. Borked TW after a year, switched to Leap, borked it, then to Slowroll, borked it. Used snapper to go back on Slowroll, system worked, and Online Account for Google worked. Then did update of around 300 packages, Online Google account, used in Dolphin, broken again. Aha, it works on my Fedora and Debian Testing. Going to try TW once more before giving up on SUSE.
Im using OpenSUSE Tw and im loving it. I use i3wm and decided to change the xds-su script so it uses kdesu instead of xterm when openning yast (and other apps alike).
Normally, you can use the curses version of YaST from the command line as an alternative. It works in a similar way to the GUI version but you don't get overlaid windows. And yes, you can work with this sort of thing in openSUSE without using sudo by changing user level using the command "su" which puts you into a root shell (don't forget to ^D when you are finished!)
Want more Linux content? Follow me on Mastodon: fosstodon.org/@thelinuxcast 0:00 Intro 0:43 A Couple Disclaimers 1:38 Making Zypper Faster 4:54 Learning YaST 7:15 Create a Forum Account 8:10 Get the Codecs 11:12 Install Nvidia Drivers 12:31 Get Familiar With Zypper 16:10 Learn About BTRFS 20:02 Install Flatpak 20:48 Change Boot Delay 22:00 Finally Updating Your System 25:46 Wrapping Up
... Following on from my previous comment: in conflict resolution, you have to make choices between mutually exclusive outcomes, eg between a red hot Plasma 6 build and a newer Mesa from Packman that is not yet in Tumbleweed. Bad choices here like 'break dependencies' can stop one package working or render ones system unable to show a display manager.
Nice video. I had tried opensuse tumblweed few weeks back and really liked it. But zypper was so slow in installing packages and updating system that I uninstalled it and switched back to fedora. If I can make zypper fast, I might try it again sometime.
How do you have that little adorable lizzard as a logo when you neofetch? I have a tumbleweed "8" logo instead. Is this a trick that I don't know, or something that has changed in recent months?
I just installed and am running Tumbleweed.. latest version as of 8/24....you MIGHT want to tell folks that if they're installing the one that INCLUDES VLC -- it needs to be REMOVED and add one from a source that is NOT the included one... the INCLUDED VLC has the h.264 DISABLED so it will NOT play DVDs no matter how many codec installs you do... simple fix-- remove the pre-loaded VLC and install a flatpak..
11:13 As someone who's dual booting windows & linux, despite openSUSE working fine with secure boot enabled, Nvidia proprietary drivers do NOT work fine. Upon installing those drivers and then blacklisting the nouveau ones, my DE broke until I disabled secure boot.
23:30, like right now, at this very moment, im being asked by zypper to manually switch repos. I knew about that flag but it seemed a little bit sus to change repos system packages, now im gonna use the shit out of it
wow this is a really helpful vid bro! i am considering Opensuse TW n move away from Windows and i just installed it today (real metal) and now i would try these tips out! Question : are appimages supported in TW?
Only thing missing for me is google noto sans fonts (specifically cjk) - so you can see eastern characters (even if you don't understand them, the boxes are bugging me)
Maybe add the command for Yast to use it with the dark theme you use because without it, it uses the light theme. I used Tumbleweed for 10 days, but on the tenth Packman codecs errors. I don't know how to fix that because I'm to thick to understand and apply the command to fix it with if not step by step explained. Tumbleweed was very quick though and to my surprise easy to install.
I tried opensuse few months ago. The part that made me leave it is the lack of community and how packman repo is only hosted in three countries and how much should I trust this repo thats located only in Czech republic, china and germany.
Uhh........there is a rather large community(not always the most polite though) of hundreds of users at forums on the opensuse site. There is also a sub-reddit with dozens of active posters, so I am a bit confused on what you mean by a 'lack of community.' Also, I'm not sure what the location of the Packman repo has to do with it's trustworthyness. Packman is a third party repo, no different than any other user ran repo, or an equivalent PPA. It has a better track record than even the AUR. The worst that happens with Packman is that it falls out of sync with the factory releases, which just means you have to manually make adjustments once in a while.
Greetings, I installed. openSuse Tumbleweed x86_64, Kernel 6.11.8-1-default Shell: bash 5.2.37. The program works well. I installed and configured an Epson L355 multifunctional printer, but it was only possible locally, through the USB cable, but it does not locate it remotely. What else could be the solution? Thank you.
Very surprised by your comments on how slow zypper is, maybe it sped up in the past few months but I’ve never noticed it being slow in the past so I’m not sure what that’s about. Like watching some other video you made your refresh took ages while everytime I do it, it flys through
Been Tumbling for 2 months now after leaving Neon behind. I'm a KDE man so I might as well make it home. My thing is, with the upcoming name issue, I wonder how they are going to handle and what ideas people have for its eventual new name?
I looked at it earlier today after wathing you talk about it. Might install it later today or tomorrow morning...THANKS- and I'll use this too. I like what I see. What do YOU recommend-- Tumbleweed or LEAP? I'm thinking Tumbleweed. Can it be DUAL BOOTED? (although I may decide to do with just OS)
Hi 👋🏻 thanks for the video 📼.... I would like to see how to configure tumbleweed for gaming using steam with proton. Is there anything particular we need to set up before starting?
You got the "Just know" thing too like Brodie, it is a thing that CTT say all the time, and now it is getting to be the way of the Linux YT Community. Matt, don't be this guy :D
One difference between openSUSE and many other distros is the existence of a /usr/etc directory. So if I want to customise which users can run which sudo commands (instead of adding the user-ids to the wheel group) I put a sudoers file into /usr/etc/sudoers.d instead of /etc/sudoers.d and if I want a system wide profile file to define a set of aliases for all users I put this into /usr/etc/profile.d instead of /etc/profile.d. I assume that the distro designers want /etc to be for the system standard definitions and /usr/etc for the user defined definitions but this cannot be fully consistent as some apps only look in /etc (for example to add some custom grub entries I still have to use the /etc/grub.d/40_custom file or add a new file in that directory).
Other way round! /usr/etc for system defaults, /etc for your local changes. Many packages now combine the /usr/etc defaults with the local /etc stuff overriding it where needed.
Yes, that makes more sense. Similar to /usr/lib, /usr/share etc. as the system standard distribution. I presume openSUSE has this directory to support rolling back the config to one of the previous snapshots.
I forgot what it is, but there is a key/key-combo you can use to show it. Personally, I set the time to 2/3sec, which is quick enough to get past and also gives me the needed buffer to hit an arrow key, which in turn stops the timer.
What window manager are you using? I'm not sure about yours, but in hyprland you can... Oh... Wait you probably don't mess with Wayland huh? I mean fair. Either way though, I just use the kde polkit and it works great. Not an option on your side? Or just felt like keeping it simple?
I thank you for sharing your knowledge, thought, opinions; i am very interested in your materials in general openSUSE in particular. Here is my problem 1, your screen is very deem i do have minor site problem, 2 your material organized in very cluster way specially openSUSE if you may reconsider it to in there specific distro! If you may i just like that (completely optional). Good day!
Great video. Would love to see one where you set up a brand new machine and show the settings and programs you change/install. Opensuse is slowly getting a lot of attention that it deserves, especially from the Fedora community that want to switch.
II would not recommend the `--allow-vendor-change` flag. I've had problems before with the codecs, and compatibility with dependencies. For me, it's better to wait a little, and check the forums to see if a package has REALLY changed repos, and do it manually, if not, keep waiting until all the upgrade is in sync :)
Packages don't (generally) change repos, but an add-on repo may supply a newer version with a different Vendor value in its metadata. --allow-vendor-change lets zypper consider installing the latest from any repo for all packages, whereas without it, zypper will try to do whatever you've asked without changing the vendor of installed packages, and allowing you to allow vendor changes on a package by package basis if that's not possible.
This video explains to me why there is no mass transitioning to Linux :( I'm sorry but normal users don't want to deal with zypprr, yast, btrfs, getting the Codecs and whatever. No idea what you talk about and honestly not even interested. People want systems that just work. From the outside it looks like Linux requires you to learn too much nerdy stuff.
I figured you'd be a gentoo user by now with all of the torturing that went on in the early days of this channel haha. Always liked OpenSUSE and good to know you can speed up zypper.
@@xamp_exclammark That doesn't sound bad. But there's a big gap between those. Fedora is only a little harder than Mint and the like. Fedora has just enough quirks to it that you would still have to google something at least once, but it's mostly good to go OoB.
I think im gonna start watching your videos on 2x speed with cc on, no hate on your content, but as much as the info you give is great, I think your videos get kind of long most of the time
First thing to do is go do that chore you were procrastinating. That is because their repos and mirrors ARE SO SLOW. So get an update and upgrade going, and go find something to do for a couple of hours. Their repos and mirrors are slow, and nothing I did to Zypper changed that.
After finally getting NVIDIA to find the drivers, Im now doing my first "sudo zypper dup" . I hope I can switch to linux fulltime. If steamgames now works in linux, its finally doable. Windows is of course better, but not as interesting as linux ;)
ugh, how long until we can get you on something else? n_n i'm getting bored of suse. [ i love it really. spent first 4 years, 2003-2007 on suse ] can we get you on something more challenging next time? some peculiar bsd-style linux trying make its own package manager and init from scratch... something like that... maybe... soon? :)
Sadly, Plasma 6 spoiled by perfect Tumbleweed-Hyprland-Plasma 5.27 world on my notebook PC. Although my desktop is doing fine with Tumbleweed-Hyprland-Plasma 6, my notebook PC is not allowing nuke and pave Tumbleweed. So, I installed Fedora-Hyprland-Budgie on the laptop and it is terrific. Fedora is pretty darn good too.
When you make a video take into consideration that all the viewers are not expert like you. So make a video that is more user friendly because all the Linux distros are not
Why are you asking us to leave a thumbs up on the channel one minute into the video? Isn't that for us to decide whether we like it or not based on the content of the video? Call to action should be at the end.
Quick tip, especially if you're a power user or want to be sure you can get into your system in case of technical issues (especially important on a rolling system): Do NOT set your Grub to zero, set it to like 2, or maybe 1 second. I have mine set to 2 on all systems and that's not actually that long. The extra 2 seconds for the peace of mind is worth it for me, but of course, to each their own.
2 Would probably be better. That way it shows up. You're right about that.
Was not expecting to get pinned! Cheers bro! 🤩🫠
@@TheLinuxCast Grub allows you to boot into BTRFS snapshots, letting it to show up (2s delay) seems like a pretty good idea to me.
@@conjurermast That is true. I gotta wonder how this would work on a LUKS encrypted system (does BTRFS even support LUKS?). 🤔
This is what I always do too, this way if you have to boot the system from a snapshot it is easier and faster, although I believe that grub can also be invoked from the keyboard.
I've tried openSUSE tumbleweed a few weeks ago, and struggled to find a video like this. Keep up the good work and thanks for making this!
"Langley" and "Tech"... Huh... Do you work in intelligence? 😂
Great video, BTW the shorthand for `refresh` is `ref` and you don't need sudo for searches, it works the same.
Snapper list can be almost instant. You mentioned that after 250-odd days, the snapper list command was taking a long time on your machine. This is because of the "Used Space" column - the size of the snapshot is calculated every time `snapper list` is run. Turn off this calculation with `snapper list --disable-used-space`, or you can use --columns with most commands to specify exactly which columns to show.
Every time I've used OpenSuSE, if I have selected every repository in the installation process, the correct NVIDIA drivers are selected for install the first time I run Yast. It's quite an easy process. Anyway, nice video Matt
Great explanation thx. Suse TW is my daily driver like it because is rolling and stable too. I’m using Arch also but we know it needs sometimes a little bit intervention.
The relevant distinction between zypper up (update) and dup (dist-upgrade) is how it defines what changes zypper will propose. Update will only propose updates which do not cause conflicts (needing to be resolved) or involve vendor changes. Think about simple, consistent vertical updates within each vendor group. Dist-upgrade is 'safeties off', anything which will allow all the latest version of every package in all enabled repos to be installed. Upgrades, downgrades, removing packages, breaking packages' dependencies, no holds barred. In most cases, there won't be a single way to solve this request, so you end up in conflict resolution, package by package.
Thank you. You've described the differences. Is there a preferred way or a suggested path of least problems?
I've tried out OpenSuse Tumbleweed and what turned me off of it was Zypper, kinda wished I had seen a video of how to make Zypper faster lol. Anyways, this was very informative and entertaining, Matt! Keep up the good work.
The problem is that their repos and mirrors ARE SLOW.
@@JaapVink I'm from the United States so maybe that's the problem.
Yup guess their Servers are all in Germany and France.
You've really gotten me interested in openSUSE. I'm not much of a distro hopper but I've been feeling the urge to switch (for reasons too boring to mention), and openSUSE is increasingly seeming like something I should consider. I'm getting a new laptop soon, and I think I will probably install openSUSE on it to start, and see how that goes. If it goes well I may switch on my workstation.
@@fakecubed did you switch to openSuse finally?
Thanks for going over Snapper, loving OpenSUSE w KDE so much.
Also the grub delay was spot on, had mine disabled early too. Those precious 8 seconds are mine again 😂
You’re a legend Matt thank you for introducing me to new platforms of Linux!
Great to see you making a lot of openSUSE content. SuSE Linux has been my first distro - think around 6.3 days - and I came back to openSUSE this year with a vengeance. TW is now installed on all of my machines...
Great tips! I'm so glad that you help people to get familiar with openSUSE!
Btw, great ricing!!!
Thanks for details. Borked TW after a year, switched to Leap, borked it, then to Slowroll, borked it. Used snapper to go back on Slowroll, system worked, and Online Account for Google worked. Then did update of around 300 packages, Online Google account, used in Dolphin, broken again. Aha, it works on my Fedora and Debian Testing. Going to try TW once more before giving up on SUSE.
Excellent stuff! Thanks Matt!
due to a KDE Plasma issue I have installed openSUSE and NixOS -- your sharing of your knowledge of those two OS's is a welcome find. cheers
Im using OpenSUSE Tw and im loving it. I use i3wm and decided to change the xds-su script so it uses kdesu instead of xterm when openning yast (and other apps alike).
Ref is short for refresh
3:04 I thought etc is pronounced either by the full form "et cetera" or as an abbreviation "eee tee cee"?
Can anyone tell me where to find the ASCII art at 8:11?
With all due respect, where is the Dynamic Kernel Module System(DKMS), GNU/Parallel and Neovim on OpenSUSE Leap's core repositories?
Normally, you can use the curses version of YaST from the command line as an alternative. It works in a similar way to the GUI version but you don't get overlaid windows. And yes, you can work with this sort of thing in openSUSE without using sudo by changing user level using the command "su" which puts you into a root shell (don't forget to ^D when you are finished!)
Want more Linux content? Follow me on Mastodon: fosstodon.org/@thelinuxcast
0:00 Intro
0:43 A Couple Disclaimers
1:38 Making Zypper Faster
4:54 Learning YaST
7:15 Create a Forum Account
8:10 Get the Codecs
11:12 Install Nvidia Drivers
12:31 Get Familiar With Zypper
16:10 Learn About BTRFS
20:02 Install Flatpak
20:48 Change Boot Delay
22:00 Finally Updating Your System
25:46 Wrapping Up
... Following on from my previous comment: in conflict resolution, you have to make choices between mutually exclusive outcomes, eg between a red hot Plasma 6 build and a newer Mesa from Packman that is not yet in Tumbleweed. Bad choices here like 'break dependencies' can stop one package working or render ones system unable to show a display manager.
Nice video.
I had tried opensuse tumblweed few weeks back and really liked it. But zypper was so slow in installing packages and updating system that I uninstalled it and switched back to fedora.
If I can make zypper fast, I might try it again sometime.
sudo zypper install dnf
And yes dnf works
How do you have that little adorable lizzard as a logo when you neofetch? I have a tumbleweed "8" logo instead. Is this a trick that I don't know, or something that has changed in recent months?
I just installed and am running Tumbleweed.. latest version as of 8/24....you MIGHT want to tell folks that if they're installing the one that INCLUDES VLC -- it needs to be REMOVED and add one from a source that is NOT the included one... the INCLUDED VLC has the h.264 DISABLED so it will NOT play DVDs no matter how many codec installs you do... simple fix-- remove the pre-loaded VLC and install a flatpak..
You don't need root privilege for "zypper se" or other zypper commands that don't make changes.
11:13 As someone who's dual booting windows & linux, despite openSUSE working fine with secure boot enabled, Nvidia proprietary drivers do NOT work fine. Upon installing those drivers and then blacklisting the nouveau ones, my DE broke until I disabled secure boot.
23:30, like right now, at this very moment, im being asked by zypper to manually switch repos. I knew about that flag but it seemed a little bit sus to change repos system packages, now im gonna use the shit out of it
It was a life saver for me. Saved loads of time
Can you make a video about installing and setup hyprland on opensuse. I have tried to install but I couldn't open yast app. your setup looks amazing .
Does this help?
xhost +SI:localuser:root && xdg-su -c /usr/sbin/yast2
(it's SUSAH)
I've been using Tumbleweed for 2 yrs now, but I didn't know that zypper tip!
Thanks!
wow this is a really helpful vid bro! i am considering Opensuse TW n move away from Windows and i just installed it today (real metal) and now i would try these tips out! Question : are appimages supported in TW?
Only thing missing for me is google noto sans fonts (specifically cjk) - so you can see eastern characters (even if you don't understand them, the boxes are bugging me)
What a useful video. Great Stuff.
Maybe add the command for Yast to use it with the dark theme you use because without it, it uses the light theme. I used Tumbleweed for 10 days, but on the tenth Packman codecs errors. I don't know how to fix that because I'm to thick to understand and apply the command to fix it with if not step by step explained. Tumbleweed was very quick though and to my surprise easy to install.
I'm a LMDE fan... not gonna use SUSE in the foreseeable future, but learning from you is mandatory.
Isn't LMDE discontinued?
Not at all. On version 6, which is based on Debian Bookworm.
@@tanmaypatel4152 It has been slowly but surely getting more users. LMDE is perfect for those who want an Ubuntu-free life.
How is LMDE? I wanted to try it out
LMDE is great. "Things to do after installing LMDE: start using your computer".
I tried opensuse few months ago. The part that made me leave it is the lack of community and how packman repo is only hosted in three countries and how much should I trust this repo thats located only in Czech republic, china and germany.
Uhh........there is a rather large community(not always the most polite though) of hundreds of users at forums on the opensuse site. There is also a sub-reddit with dozens of active posters, so I am a bit confused on what you mean by a 'lack of community.' Also, I'm not sure what the location of the Packman repo has to do with it's trustworthyness. Packman is a third party repo, no different than any other user ran repo, or an equivalent PPA. It has a better track record than even the AUR. The worst that happens with Packman is that it falls out of sync with the factory releases, which just means you have to manually make adjustments once in a while.
That is their problem. Unlike, for example, Manjaro, they just don't have their repos and mirrors set up to provide software to much of the world.
5:41 what is that menu called?
@@VinylIsForever that’s rofi
Greetings, I installed. openSuse Tumbleweed x86_64, Kernel 6.11.8-1-default Shell: bash 5.2.37. The program works well. I installed and configured an Epson L355 multifunctional printer, but it was only possible locally, through the USB cable, but it does not locate it remotely. What else could be the solution? Thank you.
@@imr1966 I don't use printers. I'd point you towards the openSUSE forums or theory discord
Great tips! Thanks a lot!
Very surprised by your comments on how slow zypper is, maybe it sped up in the past few months but I’ve never noticed it being slow in the past so I’m not sure what that’s about.
Like watching some other video you made your refresh took ages while everytime I do it, it flys through
It's slow compared to pacman but i'd say it's at the same speed where apt is at,and it's fast compared to DNF lol
Been Tumbling for 2 months now after leaving Neon behind. I'm a KDE man so I might as well make it home. My thing is, with the upcoming name issue, I wonder how they are going to handle and what ideas people have for its eventual new name?
Installing OpenSuse right now so i hope things go well X"D
What's giving the cute SUSE logo in your terminal? Tried looking through your dots and didn't see anything.
Great video. I like OpenSuse but updates are a pain. How often do you recommend updating Tumbleweed? Weekly is ok?
Honestly there is no "right time" to update. For me if everything works I don't update.
I do every 4 days
Just wondering whats painful about it?
@Rez_nick it happens too often. Too many files.
I looked at it earlier today after wathing you talk about it. Might install it later today or tomorrow morning...THANKS- and I'll use this too. I like what I see. What do YOU recommend-- Tumbleweed or LEAP? I'm thinking Tumbleweed. Can it be DUAL BOOTED? (although I may decide to do with just OS)
Hi 👋🏻 thanks for the video 📼.... I would like to see how to configure tumbleweed for gaming using steam with proton. Is there anything particular we need to set up before starting?
IOW. You like it so much exactly because it is not ready for prime time and it forces you to learn a lot.
You got the "Just know" thing too like Brodie, it is a thing that CTT say all the time, and now it is getting to be the way of the Linux YT Community. Matt, don't be this guy :D
One difference between openSUSE and many other distros is the existence of a /usr/etc directory. So if I want to customise which users can run which sudo commands (instead of adding the user-ids to the wheel group) I put a sudoers file into /usr/etc/sudoers.d instead of /etc/sudoers.d and if I want a system wide profile file to define a set of aliases for all users I put this into /usr/etc/profile.d instead of /etc/profile.d. I assume that the distro designers want /etc to be for the system standard definitions and /usr/etc for the user defined definitions but this cannot be fully consistent as some apps only look in /etc (for example to add some custom grub entries I still have to use the /etc/grub.d/40_custom file or add a new file in that directory).
Other way round! /usr/etc for system defaults, /etc for your local changes. Many packages now combine the /usr/etc defaults with the local /etc stuff overriding it where needed.
Yes, that makes more sense. Similar to /usr/lib, /usr/share etc. as the system standard distribution. I presume openSUSE has this directory to support rolling back the config to one of the previous snapshots.
How you rollback from Grub menu if you set it to 0?
I forgot what it is, but there is a key/key-combo you can use to show it.
Personally, I set the time to 2/3sec, which is quick enough to get past and also gives me the needed buffer to hit an arrow key, which in turn stops the timer.
What window manager are you using? I'm not sure about yours, but in hyprland you can... Oh... Wait you probably don't mess with Wayland huh? I mean fair. Either way though, I just use the kde polkit and it works great. Not an option on your side? Or just felt like keeping it simple?
For what it's worth, Wayland window managers are lit
@@CYB3Rsynth that's hyprland
I thank you for sharing your knowledge, thought, opinions; i am very interested in your materials in general openSUSE in particular. Here is my problem 1, your screen is very deem i do have minor site problem, 2 your material organized in very cluster way specially openSUSE if you may reconsider it to in there specific distro! If you may i just like that (completely optional). Good day!
Ok, what are the differences for users with Opensuse Tumbleweed, and Leap, Gecko what distro would a user be suited for the type of workflow?
Leap is like RHEL, Tumbleweed is like Arch but stable (Manjaro stable-stable branch) and Gecko is Tumbleweed with some presets.
Thanks so much!!!!
opensuse was my first distro and I have started to use it again
Do you recommend Opensuse MicroOS as alternative?
Why not just use dnf for everything? Does zypper have any benefits compared to other package managers?
Opensuse is great! I think its my final distro on PC
Great video. Would love to see one where you set up a brand new machine and show the settings and programs you change/install.
Opensuse is slowly getting a lot of attention that it deserves, especially from the Fedora community that want to switch.
II would not recommend the `--allow-vendor-change` flag. I've had problems before with the codecs, and compatibility with dependencies.
For me, it's better to wait a little, and check the forums to see if a package has REALLY changed repos, and do it manually, if not, keep waiting until all the upgrade is in sync :)
Packages don't (generally) change repos, but an add-on repo may supply a newer version with a different Vendor value in its metadata. --allow-vendor-change lets zypper consider installing the latest from any repo for all packages, whereas without it, zypper will try to do whatever you've asked without changing the vendor of installed packages, and allowing you to allow vendor changes on a package by package basis if that's not possible.
How to setup my desktop to look like yours?
This video explains to me why there is no mass transitioning to Linux :(
I'm sorry but normal users don't want to deal with zypprr, yast, btrfs, getting the Codecs and whatever. No idea what you talk about and honestly not even interested. People want systems that just work. From the outside it looks like Linux requires you to learn too much nerdy stuff.
same with Fedora sudo dnf upgrade --refresh
I figured you'd be a gentoo user by now with all of the torturing that went on in the early days of this channel haha. Always liked OpenSUSE and good to know you can speed up zypper.
On a scale from Ubuntu to Gentoo, how difficult is OpenSuse?
Easier than arch,harder than fedora
@@xamp_exclammark That doesn't sound bad. But there's a big gap between those. Fedora is only a little harder than Mint and the like. Fedora has just enough quirks to it that you would still have to google something at least once, but it's mostly good to go OoB.
Why not use dnf as an alternative to zypper?
Because it isn't the greatest, tbh. It misses things
which window manager are you using?
hyprland
Make a tutorial
I think im gonna start watching your videos on 2x speed with cc on, no hate on your content, but as much as the info you give is great, I think your videos get kind of long most of the time
Thanks!
Great video and what a terminal what is its name?
@@woquendoG that's kitty
Manjaro user here but after watching all the hoops you have to go through to get everything we have out of the box, still a Manjaro user 😂
the distro where the maintainers can’t renew ssl certificates on time, it’s manjaro❤
Agree, this didn't make me want to hop, not one bit.
Great tips, wish you made this video 4 years ago :)
First thing to do is go do that chore you were procrastinating. That is because their repos and mirrors ARE SO SLOW. So get an update and upgrade going, and go find something to do for a couple of hours. Their repos and mirrors are slow, and nothing I did to Zypper changed that.
After finally getting NVIDIA to find the drivers, Im now doing my first "sudo zypper dup" . I hope I can switch to linux fulltime. If steamgames now works in linux, its finally doable. Windows is of course better, but not as interesting as linux ;)
ugh, how long until we can get you on something else? n_n
i'm getting bored of suse. [ i love it really. spent first 4 years, 2003-2007 on suse ]
can we get you on something more challenging next time?
some peculiar bsd-style linux trying make its own package manager and init from scratch... something like that... maybe... soon? :)
The first thing you should do is to install Nix package manager.
btrfs broke my disk one time and trust me nothing you can do so pls take care if you want btrfs instead of ext4
Never had btrfs problems, ext4 is slower and takes up more space.
Sadly, Plasma 6 spoiled by perfect Tumbleweed-Hyprland-Plasma 5.27 world on my notebook PC. Although my desktop is doing fine with Tumbleweed-Hyprland-Plasma 6, my notebook PC is not allowing nuke and pave Tumbleweed. So, I installed Fedora-Hyprland-Budgie on the laptop and it is terrific. Fedora is pretty darn good too.
Сузе показал очень низкий фпс в играх, и фризы в кде. Так что я задержался в ней менее суток.
I hate the new Logo, they should keep the old one!
‼️‼️Thumbleweed, not Leap ‼️‼️
OpenSuse is about Zipper packages, and the write function (ie. used with ie. zfs)
enSUS
Here are Linux: Redhat and Debian....the rest is just belongings, clothing and yeehhee yaahhaa
When you make a video take into consideration that all the viewers are not expert like you. So make a video that is more user friendly because all the Linux distros are not
Why are you asking us to leave a thumbs up on the channel one minute into the video? Isn't that for us to decide whether we like it or not based on the content of the video? Call to action should be at the end.
While I agree, unfortunately it's all about the algorithm. If it sees users engage with the vieeo early on, it will suggest the video to more people.
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Is this your first day on RUclips? Like every channel ever does this lol
Why does this matter to you lmao
Hahahhaha classical "you are not my dad" attitude of the Linux user hahahahahahahhahaha
Only 32 views? TLC fell off fr fr
The podcast can use a little improvement.
32 views less than 10 minutes after the video was released is bad? What?
@@stevet7522 For a guy with 46K subs it kinda is. Linux content is a very very niche subject that people watch in their free time.
How many amongst his viewers have installed Open SUSE? Not many probably.
Only read the title, and here is what you do... uninstall it and install Nix... :P
Step 1: ban.
@@TheLinuxCast #Hater
zypper ref
Thanks!
Thank you!