I forgot how powerful YaST was. Apparently there's a way to export your profile and use AutoYaST to completely automate your install - and when combined with the default of BTRFs, it might even be as reproducible and solid as Nix. Suse is absolutely solid, I hope they keep their stance against RedHat like schemes as they do now
That wallpaper … I want that wallpaper … Thanks for the wonderful video. I’m actually new to linux and trying to find my options in my comfort zones. Currently running a laptop on the road (I’m a truck driver) with Windows, Garuda, Mint and Fedora. For some reason I can’t get Kali to install and not “feeling it” with Fedora, so thinking of trying this out now that I’ve seen your video. Didn’t even know it existed till now. So, again, thank you so much for sharing your thoughts and experiences with this Distro.
I recommend against fedora, its ran by a greedy corpo called "Red Hat", they have done a lot of shady stuff recently and gotten themselves into a lot of drama. TL;DR fedora is ran by red hat and red hat is not open source.
@@arkvsi8142 For one, openSUSE has its own KDE Plasma theme, and I think it looks nice. Plus, of all the distros I have used Plasma in, it seems the most stable and doesn't need a lot of tweaking.
@@arkvsi8142 For one, openSUSE has its own KDE Plasma theme, and I think it looks nice. Plus, of all the distros I have used Plasma in, it seems the most stable and doesn't need a lot of tweaking.
Tumbleweed and Leap always gave me headaches when i used them before some years. Maybe i would give Tumbleweed a second round. There is a Tumbleweed based distro called RegataOS which surprised me possitively. The devs work is incedible in this distro.
I tried Regata OS and it gave me extreme headaches in being able to use secondary drives as the installer would not let me configure more than one drive. I know that the dev team chose that installer because it is more friendly for noobs with basic PC's, but for someone with separate game drives it was terrible to configure. I ended up just going back to Tumbleweed.
@@jameslewis2635I duno what trouble you had 😮 I Set it up with 2 SSD and a Backup HDD. No Problems. My only Problem with regata ist the Focus on KDE and the semi rolling release.Me switched to Gecko and all perfect 😅
Tumbleweed KDE been my daily driver for little more than a week now. It's running great, quick and stable so far. I removed the Suse Firefox and installed the tarball. Same for Thunderbird. Always the latest versions.
Used tumbleweed for several months and enjoyed it. the only major issues: 1) too slow to install updates -which is terrible on a rolling release distro. Tried to find a way to configure a faster server, like you can on Debian but wasn't successful. 2) It works fine until it breaks; then [for the non expert user] it's a nightmare to try to figure out how to fix it bc the error messages in zypper are not as easy to decipher as compared to apt. Forget about forums, they are only minimally helpful. If anyone can help with 1), I'd be most grateful! 🙏
Your install is probably not using the new CDN repositories, try running "sudo zypper in openSUSE-repos-Tumbleweed" in terminal. If it asks if you want to install, say yes. It should speed up updates quite a lot.
@@aioshan653 using the new CDN is better than mirrorsorcerer, the only exception is if mirrorsorcerer now supports switching you over to the CDN repos. CDNs basically run all of the big websites out there so you have a lot more hosts (mirrors) available that picks the closest for you automatically. There really is no reason to use mirrorsorcerer or configure mirrors manually anymore.
I have a b550 msi motherboard paired with ryzen 5800x3d and rtx 3070ti and this distro just won't work man Arch Fedora Debian Opensuse Just don't work and more
I added the kde Unstable framework + the application one aswell through opensuses build website then swapped out everything through yast which i had a bunch of issues getting everything to do with kde over to plasma 6 build.opensuse.org/package/show/KDE%3AUnstable%3AApplications/patterns-kde build.opensuse.org/project/show/KDE:Unstable:Frameworks It seems it might be easier to transition over to plasma 6 now as there are separate plasma 6 packages but could be wrong
btfrs and latest amdgpu drivers. No flatpak installed by default. Latest gnome shell and kernel is almost latest. Seems good. I hope they add flatpak by default.
question: can i change my OS without loosing ANY of my files? i have some important and big files on my current OS and lets say im gona switch to another OS, how to move the files without a issue
Well when i moved over and when i distrohop i just have a home backup of my files on a second ssd and then i copy and paste them back over lol When i formated my drives to ext4 filesystem as ntfs is not the preferred way for playing games on proton i created a small ext4 partition and moved each game over, then made that ext4 partition bigger and bigger until there was only a couple games left on that ntfs and then i reinstalled those games that i couldn't move over Do you have a spare ssd in your pc or do you have a laptop?
My only issue with it is I can't find a good way to setup my drives to mimic how I can do it in vanilla fedora. Because I have one drive in my laptop that is for /home and /games which bugs me. I like having btrfs for that purpose so I don't have to worry about sizes of those and messing it up since setting btrfs manually for that always fights me for some reason and idk why 🤷♂️
the issue to me with opensuse is zypper, and the mirrors, they suck for me here in brazil, very low speed compared to pacman and zypper has no parallel downloading(this can be kind of circumvented with zypperoni, but the mirrors dont really help) and im struggling to get ROCm working as well. A great distro but these issues are too major for me to ignore
Understandable, didnt know opensuse doesnt have mirrors for Brazil :/ And yeah zypper is pretty slow vs pacman, i guess its why im using endeavour os now lol
@@linuxnext they do have mirrors here, but they're kinda slow at least for me, i get like 70mb/s on pacman downloads so going to 1mb/s sucks a lot. Opensuse is very good but i just cant leave arch lmao, a lot of support, arch wiki, aur, its just too good to leave lol
@@linuxnext Opensuse does have mirrors here, but they're slow atleast for me, i get 500kb to 1mb downloads on a single package at a time with zypper, that is unacceptable for me, imagine having to update 3000 packages with that kind of speed. Pacman works way better parallel downloads, fast mirrors, just great. Tumbleweed is good, rpms are very convenient but arch is just something else, arch wiki, aur, its very hard for me to not use arch lol
Most things were there that i needed, if i didnt have something i could go to opensuses build website to install software that is maintained by the community. For example opensuse didnt have vkcapture in their repo so i grab one from the build website and installing these repos or software is quite easy as they use .yml files that open a gui in yast to install them easily for you
can you make a video of an alternative to shadowplay for nvidia ? just like nvidia x i think, because i saw videos about it but no one can explain it in depth or like someone who plays games can understand us who used shadowplay in windows so i think you can explain it better aand tell us the pros and cons.
Gpu screen recorder is what i recommend to people that want high quality gpu recording on nvidia or amd, intel with hotkeys to record the last 30 seconds of your gameplay flathub.org/apps/com.dec05eba.gpu_screen_recorder And also i dont use my nvidia card on my main system so doing a video about nvidia stuff would be difficult to do
Either you add the unstable kde opensuse repos and replace everything with plasma 6 which can be very tricky and took me a while to do, or you can install opensuses krypton isos en.opensuse.org/SDB:Argon_and_Krypton
yes not officially but opensuse has community built packages and i can easily find one here that is also getting updated regularly build.opensuse.org/package/show/home:bhwachter:desktop/waydroid
@@linuxnext The Yast2 interface to me felt really dated and didn't work right in the UI. A lot of times packages I'd want weren't out there or I'd need to recompile. Gnome Software manager was broken. With EL, they would already be in EPEL and just a simple dnf install after enabling epel. It also seems like more developers support Fedora or RHEL vs OpenSuse, which was another problem. Yes, I can use flatpak, but it got annoying after awhile. What it means to me is.. As close to everything works on a generic system with the minimal amount of configuration after I install the OS, I can have most if not all the stuff I want installable and ready to go. Took me much less time to get up and going with Fedora and EL.
Your reason to leave Fedora makes no sense whatsoever. Just read what Fedora is and you'll see it is not Red Hat. Going to openSUSE is just the same. openSUSE is backed by SUSE, a company just as Red Hat.
Opensuse is sponored and totally controled by Suse, no different than Fedora. Sponsored by a commercial organization. If you want one that is not then that would probably be Debian. I would install the Gnome desktop no matter which you go with.
@@linuxnext I've been running Opensuse Tumbleweed. But, I find the packman repository gets out of sync and then I couldn't upgrade and got "solutions" suggested which confused me for many hours. Now I'm just using flatpaks for apps that use patented codecs etc. Browser / media players etc. I was using Fedora before this and it had some upgrade problems. Before that Arch and before that Debian Unstable. A lot of the time I'd end up going back to Debian Unstable. The snapper-grub automatic setup is really nice in Opensuse though. The Opensuse installer is nice and I figured out LVM using it, but it was confusing on Debian.
I used opensuse tumbleweed and it is possibly the most stable rolling distro I have ever used, along with void and solus
Issue with void is nonsystemd.. doesnt follow linux standards.. loads of software incompatibility.. do not recommend.
@@vendetta.02 its is not issue / for me was great features
@@vendetta.02what kind linux standard related to non-systemd?
I forgot how powerful YaST was. Apparently there's a way to export your profile and use AutoYaST to completely automate your install - and when combined with the default of BTRFs, it might even be as reproducible and solid as Nix. Suse is absolutely solid, I hope they keep their stance against RedHat like schemes as they do now
I did see that on opensuses website about creating automated isos so thats rlly neat i might try it tonight :)
@@linuxnext Automated isos are great, any distro that can get me my system on a thumb drive is an absolute winner in my books
TW Fan since the day i touched it. It is so criminally underrated.
Ive watched open suse for years so its nice to see you use it for a while as your main distro. Especially for gaming ....
That wallpaper … I want that wallpaper …
Thanks for the wonderful video. I’m actually new to linux and trying to find my options in my comfort zones. Currently running a laptop on the road (I’m a truck driver) with Windows, Garuda, Mint and Fedora. For some reason I can’t get Kali to install and not “feeling it” with Fedora, so thinking of trying this out now that I’ve seen your video. Didn’t even know it existed till now. So, again, thank you so much for sharing your thoughts and experiences with this Distro.
www.behance.net/artpaji
I then use upscaler to upscale them
flathub.org/apps/io.gitlab.theevilskeleton.Upscaler
I recommend against fedora, its ran by a greedy corpo called "Red Hat", they have done a lot of shady stuff recently and gotten themselves into a lot of drama. TL;DR fedora is ran by red hat and red hat is not open source.
OpenSuse is the same as Fedora. A community project sponsored by a company...
Yes but has suse germany done anything bad in the linux space?
@@linuxnexttrue, but it is a little bit like judging a child for what the parents are doing...
@@drakemallard6100Fedora really works better with Gnome but openSUSE feels like it works better with KDE.
Open suse is completely separated from suse
@@Simar3107 Not true. But i still trust suse more than i trust red hat as suse hasnt done anything bad in the linux space.
I love openSUSE Tumbleweed! I find its implementation of KDE Plasma is frankly the best one out there.
Why exactly?
@@arkvsi8142 For one, openSUSE has its own KDE Plasma theme, and I think it looks nice. Plus, of all the distros I have used Plasma in, it seems the most stable and doesn't need a lot of tweaking.
@@arkvsi8142 For one, openSUSE has its own KDE Plasma theme, and I think it looks nice. Plus, of all the distros I have used Plasma in, it seems the most stable and doesn't need a lot of tweaking.
Yeah why?
I keep seeing this but no one says how
Reinstalling my system, I've been using Fedora for 2 years now so I'm gonna try OpenSUSE and see how it is :-)
Tumbleweed and Leap always gave me headaches when i used them before some years. Maybe i would give Tumbleweed a second round. There is a Tumbleweed based distro called RegataOS which surprised me possitively. The devs work is incedible in this distro.
I tried Regata OS and it gave me extreme headaches in being able to use secondary drives as the installer would not let me configure more than one drive. I know that the dev team chose that installer because it is more friendly for noobs with basic PC's, but for someone with separate game drives it was terrible to configure. I ended up just going back to Tumbleweed.
I think Regata OS is based on leap version of opensuse.
@@jameslewis2635I duno what trouble you had 😮 I Set it up with 2 SSD and a Backup HDD. No Problems. My only Problem with regata ist the Focus on KDE and the semi rolling release.Me switched to Gecko and all perfect 😅
i was on all distros but not on LFS. Was on fedora to and i prefer much more Opensuse than fedora.
Tumbleweed KDE been my daily driver for little more than a week now. It's running great, quick and stable so far. I removed the Suse Firefox and installed the tarball. Same for Thunderbird. Always the latest versions.
Yast has made administering my system more straightforward.
Used tumbleweed for several months and enjoyed it. the only major issues: 1) too slow to install updates -which is terrible on a rolling release distro. Tried to find a way to configure a faster server, like you can on Debian but wasn't successful. 2) It works fine until it breaks; then [for the non expert user] it's a nightmare to try to figure out how to fix it bc the error messages in zypper are not as easy to decipher as compared to apt. Forget about forums, they are only minimally helpful.
If anyone can help with 1), I'd be most grateful! 🙏
Your install is probably not using the new CDN repositories, try running "sudo zypper in openSUSE-repos-Tumbleweed" in terminal. If it asks if you want to install, say yes. It should speed up updates quite a lot.
@@Qyngalimaybe a couple months late on a comment but if mirrors are to slow try installing mirrorsorcerer
@@aioshan653 using the new CDN is better than mirrorsorcerer, the only exception is if mirrorsorcerer now supports switching you over to the CDN repos. CDNs basically run all of the big websites out there so you have a lot more hosts (mirrors) available that picks the closest for you automatically. There really is no reason to use mirrorsorcerer or configure mirrors manually anymore.
The strict implementation of SELinux in Fedora drives me nuts.
They finally fixed the fact the main menu use to overlap the bar when in floating mode. Patiently waiting for plasma 6.
My biggest issue is just how slow zypper is and I think the patterns system is frustrating
Understandable
Just remove the comment # in zypper config file and increase concurent Downloads to 10.
@@vytautasbenetis8098 Please Sir In which file? And in which entry i have to uncomment? Thank you.
For me it is not slow but brobably cuse i live in europe
I have a b550 msi motherboard paired with ryzen 5800x3d and rtx 3070ti and this distro just won't work man
Arch
Fedora
Debian
Opensuse
Just don't work and more
Is it because of nvidia? I heard its a bit different from other distros for installing nvidia drivers
@jestyjoshua Manjaro works been using awhile back
Don't miss the openSUSE logo survey. I've already voted. 🤠
I have done it :)
@@linuxnext Nice.
good choice I would say
How did you install Plasma 6 exacty? You used an installer for that or you changed added all the repo's manually?
I added the kde Unstable framework + the application one aswell through opensuses build website then swapped out everything through yast which i had a bunch of issues getting everything to do with kde over to plasma 6
build.opensuse.org/package/show/KDE%3AUnstable%3AApplications/patterns-kde
build.opensuse.org/project/show/KDE:Unstable:Frameworks
It seems it might be easier to transition over to plasma 6 now as there are separate plasma 6 packages but could be wrong
What are those apps to the right of GIMP? Is that Skiff? Do they have a linux client yet? or is that a web shortcut? thx!
Yes it is a client for skiff
flathub.org/apps/com.fyralabs.SkiffDesktop
hey thats me!
have you found that btrfs and snapper lock up / freeze your system randomly especially after installing updates?
No? Not that i know off
btfrs and latest amdgpu drivers. No flatpak installed by default. Latest gnome shell and kernel is almost latest.
Seems good. I hope they add flatpak by default.
All my Tumbleweed and Leap installs have flatpak set up out of the box...
question:
can i change my OS without loosing ANY of my files?
i have some important and big files on my current OS and lets say im gona switch to another OS, how to move the files without a issue
Well when i moved over and when i distrohop i just have a home backup of my files on a second ssd and then i copy and paste them back over lol
When i formated my drives to ext4 filesystem as ntfs is not the preferred way for playing games on proton i created a small ext4 partition and moved each game over, then made that ext4 partition bigger and bigger until there was only a couple games left on that ntfs and then i reinstalled those games that i couldn't move over
Do you have a spare ssd in your pc or do you have a laptop?
My only issue with it is I can't find a good way to setup my drives to mimic how I can do it in vanilla fedora. Because I have one drive in my laptop that is for /home and /games which bugs me. I like having btrfs for that purpose so I don't have to worry about sizes of those and messing it up since setting btrfs manually for that always fights me for some reason and idk why 🤷♂️
I use ext4 with Leap, didn't see a reason to use btrfs with it but yeah, wonky btrfs behavior on Tumbleweed would be bad
the issue to me with opensuse is zypper, and the mirrors, they suck for me here in brazil, very low speed compared to pacman and zypper has no parallel downloading(this can be kind of circumvented with zypperoni, but the mirrors dont really help) and im struggling to get ROCm working as well. A great distro but these issues are too major for me to ignore
Understandable, didnt know opensuse doesnt have mirrors for Brazil :/
And yeah zypper is pretty slow vs pacman, i guess its why im using endeavour os now lol
@@linuxnext they do have mirrors here, but they're kinda slow at least for me, i get like 70mb/s on pacman downloads so going to 1mb/s sucks a lot.
Opensuse is very good but i just cant leave arch lmao, a lot of support, arch wiki, aur, its just too good to leave lol
@@linuxnext Opensuse does have mirrors here, but they're slow atleast for me, i get 500kb to 1mb downloads on a single package at a time with zypper, that is unacceptable for me, imagine having to update 3000 packages with that kind of speed. Pacman works way better parallel downloads, fast mirrors, just great.
Tumbleweed is good, rpms are very convenient but arch is just something else, arch wiki, aur, its very hard for me to not use arch lol
I'm a Debian user, I've installed OpenSuse a few times but nothing more.
How are things with the number of packages, do you have everything you need?
Most things were there that i needed, if i didnt have something i could go to opensuses build website to install software that is maintained by the community. For example opensuse didnt have vkcapture in their repo so i grab one from the build website and installing these repos or software is quite easy as they use .yml files that open a gui in yast to install them easily for you
@@linuxnext To be honest, I don't like it much
Not my style
@@AndreiHristow thats perfectly fine, everyone has their own taste
@@linuxnext I generally don't use KDE, maybe that's why
Nice wallpaper, can I get the link to it?
www.behance.net/gallery/57207217/Misc-Illustrations
thx mate@@linuxnext
What happened to your Debian installation?
Debian is too unstable for my liking
Well, I've been using Debian for around 20 years and have yet to have a problem I didn't create myself.
can you make a video of an alternative to shadowplay for nvidia ? just like nvidia x i think, because i saw videos about it but no one can explain it in depth or like someone who plays games can understand us who used shadowplay in windows so i think you can explain it better aand tell us the pros and cons.
Gpu screen recorder is what i recommend to people that want high quality gpu recording on nvidia or amd, intel with hotkeys to record the last 30 seconds of your gameplay
flathub.org/apps/com.dec05eba.gpu_screen_recorder
And also i dont use my nvidia card on my main system so doing a video about nvidia stuff would be difficult to do
how about nvidia x is it any good?@@linuxnext
in terms of performance impact ?
because i saw a video that used nvidia x and he didn't lose any frames on 4k
Can you link me the project as i havent heard of it and i cant find it when searching
How you installed KDE v6.0. on openSuse?
Either you add the unstable kde opensuse repos and replace everything with plasma 6 which can be very tricky and took me a while to do, or you can install opensuses krypton isos
en.opensuse.org/SDB:Argon_and_Krypton
Any idea how to install heroic game launcher on this?
If you enable flatpak then just download it from discover
No! OpenSUSE tumbleweed is a fedora-like alternative to Arch :)
openSUSE does not at this time support waydroid
yes not officially but opensuse has community built packages and i can easily find one here that is also getting updated regularly
build.opensuse.org/package/show/home:bhwachter:desktop/waydroid
From a corporate distro to another corporate distro huh?
The difference is one has a better record then the other, i use arch now lol
the light in your background is a headache bro. couldn't stand for a minute.
LMAO
3:39 osu player found
Haha, i think that was just for testing, i have total of like 2 hours of osu lol
Yeast Package Manager
🤨🤨🤨🤨
Its not as polished as Fedora or RHEL.
What does polish mean to you?
@@linuxnext The Yast2 interface to me felt really dated and didn't work right in the UI. A lot of times packages I'd want weren't out there or I'd need to recompile. Gnome Software manager was broken. With EL, they would already be in EPEL and just a simple dnf install after enabling epel. It also seems like more developers support Fedora or RHEL vs OpenSuse, which was another problem. Yes, I can use flatpak, but it got annoying after awhile. What it means to me is.. As close to everything works on a generic system with the minimal amount of configuration after I install the OS, I can have most if not all the stuff I want installable and ready to go. Took me much less time to get up and going with Fedora and EL.
@@Rk3tSk8s-ut4yoyou said it all. OpenSUSE has the best and least buggy KDE integration, but it loses to fedora on everything else.
Your reason to leave Fedora makes no sense whatsoever. Just read what Fedora is and you'll see it is not Red Hat. Going to openSUSE is just the same. openSUSE is backed by SUSE, a company just as Red Hat.
Yes both corporate companies, but have you seen suse do anything bad?
Fedora is backed by redhat wich is owned by ibm yous't look at their record
Opensuse is sponored and totally controled by Suse, no different than Fedora. Sponsored by a commercial organization. If you want one that is not then that would probably be Debian. I would install the Gnome desktop no matter which you go with.
Yes, the difference is that the sponsor isn't redhat, id rather use opensuse then fedora because of that
@@linuxnextOh, you just don't like Redhat, but a commercial sponsor is OK, and Suse is good enough / not too bad.
Yep
@@linuxnext I've been running Opensuse Tumbleweed. But, I find the packman repository gets out of sync and then I couldn't upgrade and got "solutions" suggested which confused me for many hours. Now I'm just using flatpaks for apps that use patented codecs etc. Browser / media players etc. I was using Fedora before this and it had some upgrade problems. Before that Arch and before that Debian Unstable. A lot of the time I'd end up going back to Debian Unstable. The snapper-grub automatic setup is really nice in Opensuse though. The Opensuse installer is nice and I figured out LVM using it, but it was confusing on Debian.
@@MrApplewine and redhat is owned by IBM