OpenSUSE Tumbleweed 1 year review - Pros and Cons and some minor irritations.

[@oscs4556]

The firewall in OpenSuse is called firewalld. It’s the default firewall on red hat and fedora and yes, the default firewall settings also sucks there as well.

[@plutorocks1]

Please mask your ip

[@jpberes]

Your printer story astonishes me. I'm on Opensuse Tumbledweed KDE (KDE Plasma 6.1) since yesterday ... I did, however, very easily installed my HP printer through the KDE settings and NOT through Yast. It worked fine for me

[@atlantic_love]

I'm a Windows 10 user (mainly gaming on Steam), who has played around with Linux on multile occasions through the years. My first Linux experience was, believe it or not, OpenSuse when it was available in Best Believe. I believe that's where I found the box. They even had OpenBSD :D

[@jordan-c-bay]

Snapper rollback is 100% the reason I stick with openSUSE. I make mistakes... rollback saves my butt every time.

[@uLu_MuLu]

Timemachine is a full backup, whilst Snapper is "just" a snapshot. That is why Timemachine is slower. I think...

[@NikolaiKuznetsov1991]

I use Tumbleweed as a daily driver and love it. The snapshots are a godsend and helped me save Suse after the first update borked KDE and some graphics issues. That's the only time I had update issues and it's been flawless besides that. I'd say Suse is the best for European users that want something a bit more complex than Ubuntu or Mint but don't care for Arch. Incredible language and international support. The only complaint I have is zypper. I think it's slow and could use some work, but that's not too big of an issue.

[@yrjo5050]

OpenSUSE and Ventoy : At least Gecko installer works, though Gecko iso is two years old already. But like Tumbleweed should, it updates to current flawlessly.

[@hollnagelc]

I’ve been on Tumbleweed for about 6 months now. It took me a few days to get it setup like I wanted. I’m using it for home desktop on and media server for plex / jellyfin. 13th gen i7 and two gpu’s. Nvidia P2000 and a RX6700. All working great for what I want. The P2000 covers the transcoding for videos and the RX6700 covers my gaming needs.

[@666thrasher]

Wow , have to turn off my fw. No printer in tumbleweed has been the only thing stopping me from using it. Agree 100% with what you are saying.

[@Gilded30]

I have been using tumbleweed for at least 3 months and yeah the experience has been wonderful

[@viharm]

I can’t believe I just watched a 40 min long video! The real experience over a long duration is of immense value. Your point of view and style of delivery is the real cherry on the cake. I normally skip through tangents and side topics, but not here sir. thanks for sharing. well done and keep up the good work.

[@k0zum4]

As an average Fedora enjoy-er who was craving for more stability over a relatively up-to-date system, i went down the rabbit hole of getting to know more about the ecosystem of Linux rolling release distros that were still stable and less painful to maintain, you definitely convinced me on sticking to OpenSUSE. I look forward to see more content like this from your channel, this entire video felt like a pleasant conversation, i really like how natural you made this feel. And yes, the audio was good.

[@kasscrout]

Cons: It's a PROBLEM and it SUCKS.. KZbin didn't recommend me this video earlier!

[@Rhodenspire]

Thank you for this video, I just started daily driving Open SUSE Tumbleweed last week, I had been testing it on and off, and ran into those same beginner problems, the firewall is too aggressive, the printer setup sucks, and I'm glad you mentioned the scanning twice thing because I would've never thought to try that. So far I've observed everything you mentioned, and knowing that those are the biggest cons brings me so much confidence, I think I can finally make the switch to Linux.

[@ronaldreis8242]

I was flerting with Tumbleweed and wanting using KDE 6. Anyway, I had almost quit this idea (due Tumbleweed is a rolling release distro and I need stability) but changed my mind after seeing the rollback process in this video. I decided give a try to Tumbleweed. It was nice to watch about a real experience from a real person. Thank you.

[@juhatalimaki6664]

Thanks for this, reviews after the reviewer has actually used s distro for a long time are so much more rewarding than "initial reviews" of a new distro for the reviewer. I have very new hardware and I am now on Arch based Garuda Linux and gaming is super easy (Heroic games launcher for my GOG games, and Steam), just like in windows where you install the game and just start playing, no tweaking in wine and such is needed. But, after a year a update broke the installation, only LTS-kernel works. So I thought it is a good time to try a new distro. Opensuse TW seems to be one to try. Hopefully gaming is as easy as in Garuda and Windows in opensuse too.

[@hamburger--fries]

I subscribed as soon as I saw that you were a gamer :-) Good video! I loved Manjaro as well! Currently on Debian but really considering Tumbleweed.

[@ThermalLance-hg4rd]

My distro of choice is EndeavourOS. 99% Arch, no headache. I highly recommend it. :)

[@oscs4556]

From my experience, I can install OpenSuse from ventoy without a problem. I just have to use the latest version of ventoy and match the usb stick to the right usb ports. For example, usb 3 sticks to usb port 3 or blue.