10 Things To Do After Installing openSUSE

Today I talk about 10 things you should do after you've installed openSUSE.
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==== Time Stamps ====
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
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[@soulstenance]

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.

[@TheLinuxCast]

2 Would probably be better. That way it shows up. You're right about that.

[@soulstenance]

Was not expecting to get pinned! Cheers bro! 🤩🫠

[@conjurermast]

@@TheLinuxCast Grub allows you to boot into BTRFS snapshots, letting it to show up (2s delay) seems like a pretty good idea to me.

[@soulstenance]

@@conjurermast That is true. I gotta wonder how this would work on a LUKS encrypted system (does BTRFS even support LUKS?). 🤔

[@carlocoppa5246]

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.

[@Langley_Tech]

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!

[@wstephenson]

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.

[@OldG4merDad]

Thank you. You've described the differences. Is there a preferred way or a suggested path of least problems?

[@JustinVoldenCM]

Great video, BTW the shorthand for `refresh` is `ref` and you don't need sudo for searches, it works the same.

[@WillStephenson-su4wu]

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.

[@keylowmike85]

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.

[@cejannuzi]

The problem is that their repos and mirrors ARE SLOW.

[@JaapVink]

They are not slow for me, but I'm from the Netherlands so maybe that's why?

[@keylowmike85]

@@JaapVink I'm from the United States so maybe that's the problem.

[@JaapVink]

Yeah most servers are overhere.

[@timmoody5466]

Ref is short for refresh

[@bigT49A]

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...

[@sirsuse]

Excellent stuff! Thanks Matt!

[@fakecubed]

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.

[@airbossone]

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.

[@loreyancejorome8555]

You’re a legend Matt thank you for introducing me to new platforms of Linux!

[@victorh2007]

Great tips! Thanks a lot!

[@OraOraOra]

Great tips! I'm so glad that you help people to get familiar with openSUSE! Btw, great ricing!!!

[@PenguinPotato97]

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

[@nollem]

tumbleweed is amazing. that opi codec update.. i've been waiting hoping that update sorts itself out. im getting that even when i sudo zypper dup. i just switched all vendors back to openSUSE on my laptop so i could update and not break anything but im leaving it like you did on my desktop for now.

[@johnrieley1404]

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.

[@lucaspinho9412]

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).

[@nosotrosloslobosestamosreg4115]

I'm a LMDE fan... not gonna use SUSE in the foreseeable future, but learning from you is mandatory.

[@MHill98]

Im a fedora fan but you sir are absolutely right. Learning from this man is a necessity.

[@tanmaypatel4152]

Isn't LMDE discontinued?

[@NeXTLoop]

Not at all. On version 6, which is based on Debian Bookworm.

[@nosotrosloslobosestamosreg4115]

@@tanmaypatel4152 It has been slowly but surely getting more users. LMDE is perfect for those who want an Ubuntu-free life.

[@absolutelyminty7452]

How is LMDE? I wanted to try it out

[@rmcellig]

Thanks so much!!!!

[@wstephenson]

... 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.

[@niru216]

(it's SUSAH) I've been using Tumbleweed for 2 yrs now, but I didn't know that zypper tip! Thanks!

[@sudiprajbanshiii]

Thanks!

[@unpotatoedsalmon]

opensuse was my first distro and I have started to use it again

[@amanterobot]

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?

[@ideuz_yt]

Ty for this video, hate when last videos ''thing to do after installing" outdated

[@t0miki]

You don't need root privilege for "zypper se" or other zypper commands that don't make changes.

[@demanuDJ]

Opensuse is great! I think its my final distro on PC

[@ultrasys]

IOW. You like it so much exactly because it is not ready for prime time and it forces you to learn a lot.

[@abhinavjha33]

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.

[@joshua_lee732]

sudo zypper install dnf And yes dnf works

[@TrolleyTrampInc]

​@@joshua_lee732DNF is just as slow

[@memorysticky7581]

I saw in the past on the web somewhere that Yast2, can be used in the terminal as well. also you do not have to install all your software with yast, you can use zypper package manager.

[@johanb.7869]

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.

[@zeocamo]

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

[@CausticAscarite]

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

[@TheLinuxCast]

It was a life saver for me. Saved loads of time

[@Gskvj]

With all due respect, where is the Dynamic Kernel Module System(DKMS), GNU/Parallel and Neovim on OpenSUSE Leap's core repositories?

[@memorysticky7581]

Question, the download max concurrent connections, is that based off of how many threads your cpu has? Like in Pacman on Arch I set mine to 32 since I have 32 threads and literally downloads 32 packages simultaneously. Or is the max 10 in opensuse? thanks.

[@TheLinuxCast]

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

[@abrarshakhi]

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 .

[@purpell_hase]

Does this help? xhost +SI:localuser:root && xdg-su -c /usr/sbin/yast2

[@mementomori1868]

btrfs broke my disk one time and trust me nothing you can do so pls take care if you want btrfs instead of ext4

[@DCM777.]

Never had btrfs problems, ext4 is slower and takes up more space.

[@Ish216]

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)

[@pitape1822]

Great video. I like OpenSuse but updates are a pain. How often do you recommend updating Tumbleweed? Weekly is ok?

[@manadecide]

Honestly there is no "right time" to update. For me if everything works I don't update.

[@TheLinuxCast]

I do every 4 days

[@Rez_nick]

Just wondering whats painful about it?

[@pitape1822]

@Rez_nick it happens too often. Too many files.

[@alem.14]

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 :)

[@wstephenson]

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.

[@andrabtedja]

Do you recommend Opensuse MicroOS as alternative?

[@BigDogHaver]

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.

[@x0rZ15t]

Great tips, wish you made this video 4 years ago :)

[@GrahamC-eg6ln]

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).

[@wstephenson]

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.

[@GrahamC-eg6ln]

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.

[@hoshi411]

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 😂

[@thock_enjoyer]

the distro where the maintainers can’t renew ssl certificates on time, it’s manjaro❤

[@CGA111]

Agree, this didn't make me want to hop, not one bit.

[@iworms]

3:04 I thought etc is pronounced either by the full form "et cetera" or as an abbreviation "eee tee cee"?

[@therealmattmooney]

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.

[@JoshuaT902]

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.

[@PPKNexus]

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.

[@cejannuzi]

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.

[@BenjaminWheeler0510]

Why not just use dnf for everything? Does zypper have any benefits compared to other package managers?

[@user-ky7vu5cq8q]

Can i use ext4 in opensuse and ext4 better than btrfs in gaming

[@TheLinuxCast]

You can.

[@kbaeve]

How you rollback from Grub menu if you set it to 0?

[@mountainman6420]

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.

[@alienman5000]

The first thing you should do is to install Nix package manager.

[@reecereshe]

which window manager are you using?

[@TheLinuxCast]

hyprland

[@me.Xubayer]

Make a tutorial

[@Rez_nick]

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.

[@cejannuzi]

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.

[@ideuz_yt]

I don't know how stupid the question is. Is it potentially dangerous to download software through opi from third-party repositories-unknown people? Isn't flatpack safer in this regard? I'm a noob.

[@wstephenson]

Yes, it is. Packman and Nvidia are trustworthy - you could break your system by using them carelessly, but they are unlikely to be a security risk. Random open build service home: add-on repos and 3rd party stuff could be anything.

[@wstephenson]

Flatpak is also 3rd party software and its security guarantees are often overestimated.

[@siljrath]

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? :)

[@Gilonk]

Why not use dnf as an alternative to zypper?

[@TheLinuxCast]

Because it isn't the greatest, tbh. It misses things

[@dunkelwelpling]

I hate the new Logo, they should keep the old one!

[@kbaeve]

zypper ref

[@arnavgrover4631]

enSUS

[@aivy-aigeneratedmusic6370]

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.

[@dodeedada]

Here are Linux: Redhat and Debian....the rest is just belongings, clothing and yeehhee yaahhaa

[@fofanik]

Сузе показал очень низкий фпс в играх, и фризы в кде. Так что я задержался в ней менее суток.

[@MsDuketown]

‼️‼️Thumbleweed, not Leap ‼️‼️ OpenSuse is about Zipper packages, and the write function (ie. used with ie. zfs)

[@TrustJesusToday]

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.

[@mohankumar30361]

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

[@BanduTheGreat]

Yeah make me not want to try using SUSE again. Thanks but no thanks. I'll stick to Fedora.

[@syedumairali4345]

Only 32 views? TLC fell off fr fr

[@user-xu7jz4li7e]

The podcast can use a little improvement.

[@stevet7522]

32 views less than 10 minutes after the video was released is bad? What?

[@syedumairali4345]

@@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.

[@cejannuzi]

How many amongst his viewers have installed Open SUSE? Not many probably.

[@cerealkillerjohn]

Only read the title, and here is what you do... uninstall it and install Nix... :P

[@TheLinuxCast]

Step 1: ban.

[@cerealkillerjohn]

@@TheLinuxCast #Hater

[@courtmanr]

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.

[@cFoloPL]

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.

[@felixfourcolor]

sponsorblock

[@BenjaminWheeler0510]

Is this your first day on KZbin? Like every channel ever does this lol

[@Dylan-zm3ht]

Why does this matter to you lmao

[@christiangonzalez6945]

Hahahhaha classical "you are not my dad" attitude of the Linux user hahahahahahahhahaha

[@TrolleyTrampInc]

Stay away from Yast. Honestly it doesn't explain options enough to be worth it. A lot of the things it offers are just not needed. What you will use is easier done via commands which forces you to learn and understand what you're actually changing. YaSt is the definition of over rated bloatware. Honestly just stay away from OpenSuse tumbleweed. It could be a great distro. The problem is zypper is painfully slow. Painfully slow. Up there with DNF.

[@cloakofshadow1]

no