OpenSuse Tumbleweed 90 day review. Yep, it's still awesome

I've been running OpenSuse Tumbleweed for about 90 days now, and I'm still as happy with it as I was at 30 days. It's here to stay.

[@sitaroartworks]

Same distro here, it's a great one indeed. When you have a AMD GPU + rolling release like Tumbleweed, is ultra-stable. Nvidia users might be more comfortable with Leap + proprietary drivers (better performances than open source unfortunately and they must pay extra attention on Kernel updates). Enjoy :)

[@gharrised6762]

old geezer noob here, was scared away from this distro because of the horror stories about installing, watched the video and installed. Easiest install I have ever had with Linux. Remembered to turn off firewall and had the easiest printer install ever. I usually have to fight this, could be why. Anyways, have a good day and thank you!

[@LowTechLinux]

Outstanding!! ❤️ Old geezer ❤️ Way back in the day I was in a gamer group for battlefield 1942. Our name was ole geezerz. Tag was -OGz- Fun times fun times. Thank you for the memory recall lol 😁😁

[@gharrised6762]

awesome! the only funny hitch was I thought you said OBS, but you really said OPI, so now I have a working OBS STUDIO (whatever that is) along with OPI 😃 thanks again

[@anamatva]

opensuse tw with dual monitor here... same issue keeps me from sleeping my machine... thanks for giving it coverage

[@Delos-33]

This distro is really underrated. Yet to have an update break the system in months but Endeavour OS broke within a month just from updating

[@mebeingme947]

Nice video. In KDE what worked for me, to change settings on the monitor to set input scan to manual. Ever since it's working like a charm. I'm not on OpenSuse, even though I do like it, it somehow isn't really responsive on my systems. I don't mean boot times as I'm not too much interested in that....but once in it feels sluggish. Hope the screen setting change is helpfull to anybody as it's a simple thing to do.

[@LowTechLinux]

Thank you for that. Will definitely try

[@shatteredvidrio]

I think I had the same black screen issue as well, but only on KDE Wayland. I rotated a display and reverted the change and it was reestablished.

[@TrustJesusToday]

Tumbleweed with Hyprland and Plasma is as good as it gets. I started my Linux journey in June 2023 and hopped. Debian with Plasma was the benchmark for many months. Debian doesn't offer Hyprland and that's a shame. Tumbleweed is really terrific.

[@unhingedbrokie]

Great video sir. Subscribed!

[@LowTechLinux]

Thanks for the sub!

[@alexstone691]

Its kinda suprising how polished the iso is, with the script to mount the system for rescue and i have not seen in ANY of the major distros Had issues when installing on my laptop that EFI install did not boot, always failed to install grub even manually but BIOS/legacy worked great!

[@fizsrp]

Ok I think ima try to install this on a pc I got collecting dust and learn Linux .. and so on!

[@LowTechLinux]

Excellent. Let me know the goods 👍

[@justinreyes4399]

always appreciate your videos man. are you also a programmer / software dev?

[@LowTechLinux]

I do some Godot dev, other than that not really. I've dabbled with all of them c, c++, qt, webdev, you name it. I know just about enough of all of them to get myself in too deep LOL I've been wanting to dust off the c,c++, and qt and help with kde, I just barely have time to make a couple vids a week, I just can't right now.

[@rakandhiyaaa92]

I'm considering using this as my first rolling release, very comfortable with my Ubuntu but I'm looking to move to OpenSuse, how often should I update? Is once a week good enough?

[@LowTechLinux]

Once a week should be plenty. I have a couple Tumbleweeds I update once a month and it goes fine. My main system I update daily.

[@no_name4796]

I honestly tried opensuse tumbleweed only because it's the only distro which support hyprland very well, and arch and nix are too complex and crazy for me. Now i love it!

[@kevinpeng487]

looks good

[@erbenton07]

What is the reset thing you talked about if an update breaks? I run TW but haven't heard of that. I have the same problem with dual monitors and kde

[@LowTechLinux]

Tumbleweed automatically does back ups everytime it updates. When the grub screen shows up select start bootloader from read-only snapshot. Once up and running start a terminal and type sudo snapper rollback Be sure and pick a read-only option that was working, it rolls back to the one you've booted into

[@det0xx842]

Great content! Where can I find such a great wallpaper? :)

[@LowTechLinux]

This is Plasma's built in picture of the day wallpaper, set to unsplash wallpapers, galaxy category

[@baileyboy3687]

We use leap in work for our CAM department. Its always been a stable OS over the years but I've always been put off using it personally as when there has been errors i've just found it so hard to find any information. I've always used Kubuntu where any problem with it then i find pages and pages of information. I noticed Path of Exile on your desktop. I'm running it on my home machine windows 10 and do want to move my main rig to a linux flavour as all my little promox machines are running some kind of linux distro. How do you find POE runs on suse?

[@LowTechLinux]

I have run POE for years on linux. When they released the vulkan render in the game it made a world of difference. It's my #1 go to game on linux. Here is a video I made when the vulkan renderer in the game happened (about 3 years ago) and how to turn it on. I think it works by default now when it detects you have linux. kzbin.info/www/bejne/mGenhHqYiKqnrLc

[@baileyboy3687]

@@LowTechLinux Excellent, will go watch it now. Thanks

[@bryanyoder7041]

Been a long time since I tried opensuse, found your video doing a little research, now I just wonder if you are a regular AA:PG player, haha

[@LowTechLinux]

🤣😂

[@oscs4556]

You can just run opi by itself and it gives a list of software that can be installed with opi.

[@LowTechLinux]

When i do opi by itself it gives me a short list. opi Also these queries can be used to install packages from various other vendors: anydesk AnyDesk remote access atom Atom Text Editor brave Brave web browser chrome Google Chrome web browser codecs Media Codecs from Packman and official repo dotnet Microsoft .NET jami Jami p2p messenger megasync Mega Desktop App msedge Microsoft Edge plex Plex Media Server resilio-sync Resilio Sync decentralized file synchronization between devices using the bittorrent protocol skype Microsoft Skype slack Slack messenger sublime Editor for code, markup and prose teamviewer TeamViewer remote access vivaldi Vivaldi web browser vscode Microsoft Visual Studio Code vscodium Visual Studio Codium yandex-browser Yandex web browser yandex-disk Yandex.Disk cloud storage client zoom Zoom Video Conference but I can do opi teams and get a completely different list 1. python38-python-openid-teams 2. python39-python-openid-teams 3. python310-python-openid-teams 4. python311-python-openid-teams 5. perl-Teamspeak 6. ruby2.7-rubygem-teamspeak3 7. ruby3.0-rubygem-teamspeak3 8. ruby3.1-rubygem-teamspeak3 9. ruby3.2-rubygem-teamspeak3 10. ruby2.7-rubygem-teamspeak-ruby 11. ruby3.0-rubygem-teamspeak-ruby 12. ruby3.1-rubygem-teamspeak-ruby 13. ruby3.2-rubygem-teamspeak-ruby 14. teamspeak3-client 15. teams-for-linux 16. python39-pymsteams 17. python310-pymsteams 18. python311-pymsteams 19. pidgin-plugin-teams 20. libpurple-plugin-teams 21. libpurple-plugin-teams-lang 22. python39-simple-django-teams 23. python310-simple-django-teams 24. python311-simple-django-teams

[@rhatz8429]

how can to make kernel 6.3.7 when i download opensuse ita on latest kernel already

[@LowTechLinux]

Tumbleweed doesn't have a way to change the kernel by default but you might be able to set a specific kernel by downloading it from software.opensuse.org

[@fizsrp]

So far I love it.. but I got a super noob question.. how do I stop it from hibernation or sleep ? I want to stay on at all times.. thanks in advance to however helps me!

[@LowTechLinux]

If you're on KDE plasma control panel > power settings > uncheck turn off screen and hibernate/sleep. Other DEs will be similar

[@fizsrp]

@@LowTechLinux thank you

[@fizsrp]

One more sorry.. I’m getting error .. Signature Verification for Repository packman failed. What does that mean

[@LowTechLinux]

did you add it by yast > software repositories > add > community repository > packman ? That should have downloaded the signature verification.

[@fizsrp]

@@LowTechLinux and again Thank You for all your help !

[@CausticAscarite]

Dual monitor setupp (laptop+external monitor) doesn't do such things to me, strange. And I even setup a photo slideshow on both :\ ddamn

[@CausticAscarite]

btw also recently got to manually installing a opensuse system onto usb drive basically from scratch by installing only necessary things, also used livecd for that!

[@johnrieley1404]

Much doc says in TW you should not do zupper up but zypper dup

[@LowTechLinux]

That is correct. In tumbleweed only do zypper dup

[@beamngsupercrash8905]

Usb tethering not working...

[@encapsulatio]

Would you be willing please to help me figure out how to make my Epson L3110 properly work on Fedora? This printer is the only thing keeping me from fully using Linux and deleting Windows 10. I tried installing the official driver for Linux from Epson but it does not seem to make any difference. I can not print at different DPI settings, no Fast Draft or High Quality presets, I can not make it work like on Windows so it prints on both sides of the paper and I just manually flip pages(Manual Duplex printing) when I want to print on the other side just like I do on Windows. Scanner does not work properly like on Windows. All kind of strange image artifacts appear and colors are messed up also compared to doing the same thing on Windows..

[@LowTechLinux]

Are you on Opensuse?

[@shatteredvidrio]

Have you tried logging in as root and checking out if the issue persists? I had a similar issue (no the artifacts) with my Canon, tho it was just custom options not being applied with the KDE Plasma printer settings.

[@encapsulatio]

@@LowTechLinux Fedora.

[@encapsulatio]

@@shatteredvidrio How do I login as root?

[@c3cxla]

Facecam is little too small, I think it would be a better viewing experience if you increased the size of it next time.

[@LowTechLinux]

Note noted. I thought that too about half way through. Lol. Thank you

[@milkkolaj]

Hey I noticed that you're using an AMD gpu I experience lower fps on native games for some reason anything I can do on Tumbleweed?

[@LowTechLinux]

what native games are you referring to? Do they have vulkan renderer options?

[@milkkolaj]

@@LowTechLinux Mainly splitgate I don't why but the FPS is very low I checked a similar benchmark (on Windows) the benchmark showed 300fps on ultra while mine struggles to hit 90?

[@LowTechLinux]

@@milkkolaj well, you peaked my curiosity, installing it now

[@milkkolaj]

@@LowTechLinux Also X11 appears to be kind of broken on AMD The mouse cursor doesn't match the input detected by the game in the menu/HUD prodably very poor optimalization on AMD from the game engine

[@LowTechLinux]

@@milkkolaj still in tutorial but getting 120 fps, AMD + wayland

[@milkkolaj]

What drivers does opensuse use for AMD? RADV? And does it use similar drivers to nobora?

[@LowTechLinux]

By default it uses the same AMD driver as all Linux distros use by default, the built into the kernel and mesa amdgpu open source drivers. Radv is built into Mesa since I think 2017 for vulkan support. So yes, it should be the same as nobora.

[@milkkolaj]

@@LowTechLinux Alright so In your opinion should I use it over nobora? I am currently researching a lot of information about those distros before dedicating to one

[@LowTechLinux]

I can't really say if you should so I'll answer on my own behalf. I'm not a fan of fedora (red hat) but nobara fixes some of the things I don't like about it. Other than that I prefer having an extremely stable rolling release distro that I don't have to do a point release upgrade every six months. In tumbleweed I get the latest and greatest drivers/mesa/packages soon after they're available. I game regularly and it's been a great experience. When you install steam for example it will also install everything you need for a good proton/wine experience. Pipewire is the default, and Wayland is there too, you just have to log in with Wayland session. Zypper is a little slow, but so is dnf, so you shouldn't notice it too much. I think it's the best rolling distro, personally.

[@milkkolaj]

@@LowTechLinux Alright thanks I will go with it because I am also planning to game on my pc which I am going to purchase soon(Get someone else to build it with my ordered parts for a small fee). So the gaming performance is perfect out of the box? Also is there like a what to do after installing open suse guide like an advanced 'welcome screen' which prompts you with codecs etc?

[@LowTechLinux]

Welcome screen will tell you about some of that. But codecs are easy as sudo zypper in opi Which will install opi (think of it as a specialized installer) Then do sudo opi codecs It will prompt you through several codecs installers, super easy. opi can also install other things like sudo opi google-chrome Will install Google Chrome and add the google-chrome repo to zypper. Anything you install with opi will be updated when you update the system normally. If the update button fails (happens occasionally) you will have to update manually with sudo zypper dup Some of the Opensuse ways are a little different, but once you do it a few times it's all pretty easy and straightforward. If you have any questions let me know.

[@EasyGameEh]

if you'd need a single anecdote to describe linux in a nutshell then your black screen issue would be it - for every person on any distro no matter how fringe, mainstream or "solid" such as opensuse there's always something not working properly. this level of bs just isn't acceptable on windows. not that windows is flawless by any means, but for the absolute and overwhelming majority of win users it just works.

[@LowTechLinux]

I agree with you for the most part. But it isn't because windows is better, cause it isn't. It's because windows is the defacto standard and gets drivers [mostly] properly made for it, whereas in Linux we're often hacking a driver together that only mostly works. Also, my experience with windows multimonitor support isn't great either.

[@EasyGameEh]

@@LowTechLinux the thing is this is irrelevant even if true. you can't expect normies to flock to linux before linux can provide what windows provides. curiosity alone won't cut it.

[@LowTechLinux]

"normies" use their computer to fetch email once a day, watch KZbin videos, and lookup recipes. Linux does that. Most "normies" would do just fine with Linux if someone else installs it and gets their printer working for them. My 78 year old mother is a normies, she has kubuntu on her laptop and uses it just fine, after I installed it and got her printer working for her.

[@haplozetetic9519]

​@@EasyGameEh The "normies" I've known who went to Linux have all said they prefer it over windows. As has been pointed out, for most people, if the basic stuff works, they're happy.

[@DarrenSaw]

Buy a Linux machine where components have actually been selected that work then this isn't a thing.