Switching to OpenSUSE | Part 1 | 10 Day Challenge

[@kriseberwein7357]

"Discover Store" is a KDE thing, not an OpenSusse thing. And yes, it sucks hard, but it sucks equally on all distros.

[@GNARGNARHEAD]

still totally broken, YaST is still golden

[@Epsilonsama]

Suse should just remove it honestly cause it's not good

[@R3DMSR]

I think you're falling in love for KDE. Can't blame you, I did 2 years ago and here we are now

[@folksurvival]

*with

[@R3DMSR]

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[@muricanmtg4039]

Computer User If you don’t mind me asking, why is that?

[@muricanmtg4039]

@Computer User I'm sorry to hear that, but I hope you find what you need in Windows.

[@mitchelvalentino1569]

Awesome! OpenSUSE is a great OS. Can’t wait to see what you think. Cheers!

[@risat3354]

Amazing man! I started watching your video from the fedora days in November. Really glad to see your channel gaining subscribers rapidly. And as usual, I am also doing this challenge along with you.

[@TennesseeFrank]

As someone who's been using Linux for almost 7 years I've given just about all of them a try and found that a good Debian/Ubuntu based District is hard to beat. I moved to KDE Neon a couple months ago but wanted to try some of the other KDE Distros as well. I gave OpenSuSE with KDE a try but had no luck with it so I moved back to Neon. I hope you have better luck than I did. Lovin' the bids.

[@KentsTechWorld]

omg i remember when i got my first boxed version of SUSE back in the late 90's (now i feel old :D ). i always had a soft spot for this distro for that reason :) keep it up and i hope your journey will be fun and great :)

[@mattking6718]

Yeah, I remember where I lived you could go to the walmart or staples and pick up Linux in a box. Walmart had Mandrake at the time and Staples had Corel Linux, Corel came with a Loki demo CD! Woah! Linux gaming back then was even more legit.

[@KentsTechWorld]

@@mattking6718 Man Mandrake was my 3rd distro :D i used to switch between that and SuSe all the time.

[@mattking6718]

@@KentsTechWorld Dude, I was a Mandrake/Mandriva user from 2000-2011 when Rosa bought them. And the really cool thing is that Rosa Fresh R10 still has the KDE4 version ISO and it's so fantastic, I have it running on a Dell Optiplex and it looks just like it did when Mandriva bit the dust in 2011. I use a Buntu based (Linspire 7.1 & 8), on my main systems because it's just easier to install some software, like Lightworks. And for whatever reason Rosa don't have Ranger in their repos, I have it installed and it was simple an all but really...no ranger??? EDIT: I really miss Mandriva Powerpack, so worth the money so sad it's dead.

[@KentsTechWorld]

@@mattking6718 Oh linspire :O i used to be a big suporter back in the day (even when it was called lindows) :D yeah the powerpack was awesome, i am soooo pissed i throw all my boxed versions away :( Have you ever tried out Magia or what they are calling it?? it's the devs from Mandrake/Mandriva that are making it, a bit slow on releases but stable and feel like like the good old Mandrake/Mandriva platform :)

[@mattking6718]

@@KentsTechWorld I used Mageia for a couple of years but then I went back to the *buntus because things just work better. But I have tried Mageia, OpenMandriva, I have a Rosa machine now with R10 Fresh and I have tried pclinuxos as well. But none of them are as good as Mandriva in my opinion. Rosa is really close but they seem to have their focus and it's nothing like the original Mandrake. That's why I'm on Linspire now because they're focused on making a good commercial desktop Linux.

[@dipi71]

Just to demonstrate what's possible in terms of booting speed with openSUSE Leap 15 on an old i5 with SSD: »Startup finished in 221ms (kernel) + 650ms (initrd) + 712ms (userspace) = 1.583s« according to systemd-analyze, all the way from GRUB2 to KDE/Plasma5 (absolute personal record was a warm boot in 1.391 seconds, though, thanks to systemd. I conducted a few experiments in order to get there: KDM turned out to be way faster than SDDM or other display managers; similar exim (substituted for postfix), NetworkManager (for wicked) etc.; but the absolute biggest boost was to make an uncompressed initial RAM disk with dracut. Tip: for installing and browsing software packages, just start YaST and go to »Software Management«; also, look into the optional »packman« repositories. You're welcome. Cheers!

[@sim9955]

It's a great distro. A new comer to linux I started off with opensuse. Good so far but I have LOTS to learn! Kudos on your progress and success!!!!

[@cr0ft-2k]

I used to dislike KDE a lot and ignored it for years, and then I needed a desktop Linux and decided give Kubuntu a whirl, and boy howdy, a great user experience, and especially since the laptop I installed it on actually has an old but still workable Geforce. I'm a recently converted KDE fan, no question, Plasma is pretty awesome.

[@zocker1600]

nice that you like openSUSE here a small advice as a openSUSE user from the beginning: Discover is often broken on Tumbleweed (no problems on leap from my experience), so if you use TW and delete discover: 1. block discover in Yast, otherwise it'll get installed again 2. uninstall PackageKit and block it, because PackageKit will search for updates and bug you to install them, but it will fail, because it needs discover in order to do so and throw annoying error messages all the time (at least for me) aand sometimes it'll block zypper so you cannot install anything via Yast unless you kill PackageKit.... (3. if you have a recent Intel HD Laptop iGPU, there's a bug in TW with QT 5.12 right now, that will mess up your desktop completely) EDIT: point 3 is solved in the current version of TW

[@astrofishwalk]

I'm a long term Suse user. ;) That's what it was called when I started using it Suse 20 odd years ago. Why. First thing is the install. While people can accept what it offers automatically things can be changed. Often partitioning in my case and what software is installed from day 1. I usually include all that will be needed to allow me to compile applications if needed as I may not be able to find what I want in their repositories. 2nd - ;) Simple. If some one wants a pretty stable KDE they lead the pack easily or at least get their a lot more quickly than others. 3rd YAST which stands for Yet Another System Tool. It can do all sorts of things that avoid the need for console bashing. Also best to use it for install. KDE always try and include install themselves but be careful - it may break your system. YAST will will make sure dependencies are met and it's unusual for any package from them to cause problems. Actually any rpm provided by a developer is unlikely to cause problems as well. Lots of packages are developed in their build service which is also used by some other distro's. Main problem here is finding the packages but for most popular applications the latest version is likely to be there somewhere or the other shortly after it comes out. Their software search doesn't always find them but the system will do once a users repo list is updated. 4th An excellent user forum. I've messed things up a few times and help from there has always sorted it out. It's not unusual for console work to be needed in extreme cases which isn't a problem if the instructions are clear. Even after all of the time I have used Linux I am not a console warrior. Generally with Suse there is no need to be even for what might be called power users. Oddities. I've mentioned one KDE's software update. I'd suggest don't use it. Packman is another one. OpenSuse only provide pure opensource so anything else comes from there. Generally I don't include it in my repo list as many things will get updated. I just get codecs from there. There are usually web pages about that will just install those. If some one does update all from there it needs to remain active otherwise things may break. I prefer to maintain a virgin release and update via the releases. This way I can be more sure that any application I install is unlikely to break the system. Including Packman in the repo list is more like having a rolling release. I may download and install rpm's from them as an alternative. KDE's System Settings is another oddity. Best viewed as a desktop configuration tool. More system type things sometimes get added that may or may not be useful. However if some one for instance wants to configure a network card, set up a server etc and many other things I'd say use YAST. It will automate it. John -

[@eliotbaez]

Ajohn W I’ve been using openSUSE as my primary linux distro for about six months, so obviously I haven’t seen it change over time as I’m sure other people have. But I’d like to add that YaST is incredibly useful in that it not only can be used graphically, but also through a terminal. I find this especially useful for the laptop I have dedicated as an FTP server and nothing more, as it is set up to use only a text-mode interface. Being able to fully configure the system without the need for a GUI or extensive knowledge of config files is incredibly useful and convenient.

[@trevorsmissaert5687]

definitely exited for this series. love your content man.

[@migue7490]

I love Opensuse, it's an amazing distro, so solid, so polish. I used it for around 2 years. I'm very happy with Arch and probably I'm not gonna look further for now, but Opensuse is very good.

[@bobgreene2892]

Just curious-- what led you to Arch?

[@migue7490]

@@bobgreene2892 The fact that Opensuse doesn't let you uninstall a default program without breaking the system had started to annoy me. I couldn't uninstall Firefox without uninstalling the entire plasma DE, due to those default applications the system was a little bit slow. Also the official page where repos are located was going down often. I was looking for a distro with no default apps and with a decent amount of software. Arch starts with nothing, you choose your programs, and due to AUR it has the same or more software than Ubuntu and you don't have to add repos with ppa or similar. So I decided to sacrifice stability for those advantages, but then I noticed Arch is not unstable at all as some people say.

[@jayaramhari3767]

Hey bro I ran into a issue, the issue is the login loop and it is not logging in , can you please suggest a solution to this I am not able to find any solution to this

[@scottpascal3099]

openSUSE has the best KDE implementation thats why I like it. The feel of Plasma in openSUSE doesen't compare to other Distros that uses Plasma... it feels natural.

[@s9209122222]

How about the KDE NEON?

[@torspedia]

@@s9209122222 That's what I am watching this on!

[@mattking6718]

@@s9209122222 Do people actually use KDE Neon? I thought that was more of a KDE showcase ISO to present latest KDE features?

[@naveenbattula]

@@mattking6718 i use it all day every day it's awsome

[@f4614n]

I use KDE plasma on arch since a few years by now and I love it. The customizability, shortcuts, window snapping and integration of gtk applications are providing the best desktop experience I had so far.

[@veremlim]

Just an opinion: I would really appreciate some clips from your installation in these videos in the corner or pasted within your description/telling.

[@ChrisTitusTech]

Will do, I normally do an installation video prior to the official day one. The issue I have is I need another computer to record it. This isn't a VM install like many videos out there, and is my main machine.

[@veremlim]

@@ChrisTitusTech Thanks for the response man, dangit you are fast. :) It is a joy listening to you, but I thought some visuals would do more good to these nice videos of yours, raise the production quality. Though, it is just a suggestion. Afterall, this is starter channel, don't worry about it if it will be too much of a hassle in these early times. :)

[@bevan9661]

Your channel is really nice! I'm learning all these small bits about Linux, even though I've been a Linux user since July 2017!

[@holski77]

thank you! this was the only OS that recognized my new 4800H 2060 laptop from ASUS, its really nice to have your summary to hit the gate running with the OS...... o7 good sir! My desktop mint OS pooped the bed when I tried to upgrade to mint 20 from within mint 19.3...... so i might be switching over on all my linux PCs

[@KandMe1]

Yes openSUSE is really amazing and so much you can configure for your workspace. Scripts for KDE are different commands and all for the KDE terminal but well I still like it. It is by far the best for getting into Linux always has been from way back and I think it has improved just getting back into it myself.

[@philippecardin1109]

Discover works fine in my Plasma 5.12.7, but since i got it installed on Mint 19, i usually use the Mint native software manager. But the other day, i for the first time check the updates in Discover and there was plenty of it related to my Plasma desktop, i did them and everything works great!

[@ChrisTitusTech]

Maybe because I'm a rolling release, I just know it didn't work for crap out of the box for me. I ended up just purging it and using YaST for my installs.

[@marcussVRLinux]

You should use YaST's module to install and uninstall software, nothing else.

[@MegaMoiz]

Titus is not the only one who likes opensuse. I have been trying linux distros for a while now and the only one i love right now is opensuse. I tried basically every popular linux distro out there except for arch because you know, Obvious reasons why i dint even attempt to install it at all. Opensuse i like even more than manjaro and ubuntu KDE edition. It feels more stable and looks solid to boot so YAY :) and yes i also have been using since windows 98. I HATE WINDOWS 10 so much i am willing to switch to linux lols. Gonna make the switch to it in a couple more days.

[@abrundag]

funny you mention windows vista. it was the reason I started using linux in the first place

[@Florin76]

Suser since 1996 :) One Yast to rule them all! The openSUSE installer is the best around, you can even configure a RAID array so beat that! For the newcomer stick with openSUSE Leap with KDE desktop. For more advanced user you can try openSUSE Tumbleweed. For the daily use stuck with the apps from openSUSE repos, for others and more exotic install flatpaks and appimage apps.

[@AwaisMahmood57]

I'm not sure if you have already but I would install KDE Connect App on your mobile. Also, install KDE integration for Libre office and change the Icon theme to Breeze. It will look a lot better :)

[@emjaycee]

KDE is a great desktop... Discover is a pain in the butt lol. I was so rapt that Manjaro didn't go down the Discover path! In KDE Neon I think I'd rather do simple terminal updates lol, actually in a lot of Ubuntu based distros I think terminal updates are probably as easy as any of the other options lol. Opera is my browser of choice. Be interested if you can look more deeply at codecs and snaps (if they work) for openSUSE. SUSE install just looked and felt 'professional'. Keep up the good work, Chris :)

[@davidg4512]

Enabled notifications for such great videos. I love opensuse but always manually partition my stuff during install because opensuse makes a mess. Good to see your channel grow.

[@ChrisTitusTech]

I can totally see this, It modified a lot of my system. I had 4 physical hard drives, and it created something like 11 partitions.

[@daveleitz9107]

Interestingly, I just went from Ubuntu to OpenSUSE Tumbleweed. Once I got past the codec install, everything just works. I had already come to appreciate KDE from Kubuntu 18.04, so it's more than just an appreciation of KDE Plasma for me. OpenSUSE is just a more polished product in my opinion. Steam, Blender, GIMP, Krita, and all my other software runs fine. Even my Wacom Intuos Pro works perfectly.

[@Ronit_Ray]

Glad you're enjoying KDE! It definitely is the best time to be picking it up for the first time now- used to be a pretty bloated system before but is buttery smooth now. I'm a KDE Neon user because I'm lazy that way (ubuntu base is what I'm used to), but it does have the latest of KDE and is awesome. I think you'll like the default screenshot tool called Spectacle, it's better than most other tools I've used on Linux. Only missing doodling options right after taking the shot. Your frustration with Discover makes sense, it's veery barebones and glitchy sometimes. The only software centre I've actually "liked" using is Mint's. Cheers for another great video!

[@Xeno_Bardock]

Just download and install Bedrock Linux .sh script from Github on openSUSE, sudo brl fetch arch, sudo pacman -S base-devel, install yay package and you have access to AUR on openSUSE.

[@fadiallo1]

what , you can install pacman in opensuse ??? can i install apt ?

[@ChrisTitusTech]

What is this WITCHCRAFT!!??!

[@patiencelarson4128]

Ahahah bedrock linux is sooo crazy

[@Xeno_Bardock]

@@fadiallo1 Yes you can install pacman and apt by doing sudo brl fetch arch debian.

[@Xeno_Bardock]

You can download Bedrock Linux .sh script from here: github.com/bedrocklinux/bedrocklinux-userland

[@TheHillmom]

OpenSUSE has been one of my favorite distros and Plasma is f Definitely my favorite DE. The two are an awesome combination. I LOVE that I can set windows to open in specific places, in specific sizes. I also get the updates that I need. OpenSUSE is the best of new and stable. You get new stuff, but they test things first. That way I'm comfortable having my must get work done system on it. I honestly didn't know Discover had issues for the longest time. When I discovered Plasma I was already using the terminal for all my installation and updates. It wasn't until people in one of my Linux groups were complaining about Discover that I messed with it a bit. Discover really does need work still.

[@CrustyAbsconder]

Tumbleweed is my only operating system on my Intel i5-3470 on a ASUS mini-ITX with 1800 MHz DDR3. In the past 6 months, I have updated about twice per week, so at least 48 times. Only once did I get a weird message saying a package did not update due to a missing dependency and it fixed itself about 3 days later on the next update. So to me that is stable. I have heard a rumor, that by running the update without logging in, but instead in the tty, that it is a safer way to update. I tried that once. It is possible that OpenSUSE has a smaller repository than some more popular distros. But that does not affect me. I have heard a rumor that, that users of video cards, have issues on rolling releases of distros. I do not have a video card. OpenSUSE allegedly has a good webpage, wiki, Facebook, and Reddit page. I have not yet looked into that. Zypper sounds more complicated than apt or DNF, but if you type the major commands, for example, "sudo zypper dup," then the next time you just hit the up-arrow key to type the command. That way you don't have to memorize it, or have a typo. zypper seems to be a excellent package manager.

[@johnswift6135]

Underrated distro opensuse very good and solid look forward for the updates hope it works for you cheers.

[@ikuwilld]

Watching from Japan. Keep up the great work!!

[@dropdatabase2569]

Discover is cool when you use it for apt or flatpak or snap. It just doesn't really work with zypper

[@zakariachahboun]

thanks

[@mattking6718]

11:50 That configuration tool looks so nice. It reminds me of the MCC from Mandrake/Mandriva/Megeia/OpenMandriva and formerly, until they retired it, ROSA.

[@mattking6718]

And I think pclinuxos still uses the MCC, but they use apt for rpm on pclinuxos. That's one very interesting Mandriva fork.

[@nonegiven9528]

I agree. Settled on KDE (plasma) right away. Plasma and KDE feels like Windows, looks polished as well. I still try others, but honestly most GUI's on other distros look like they are from 1998. Running Debian Stretch as a daily driver for months. Suggesting a video series on file sharing in Linux.

[@salatwurzel-4388]

Opensuse is the first thing that comes to my mind when it comes to "what should i install some non techy person that wants to switch to something which has a familiar interface to windows" The KDE integration in opensuse is imho the best out of all linux distributions and opensuse is rock stable. It "just works", also yast is super easy to use, probably the easiest system config tool. In other distributions like ubuntu, fedora and so on, KDE does not feel like it really belongs to the distro, hard to explain but yeah ... feels like opensuse is the natural home for KDE :D

[@sirsuse]

I installed openSUSE 15.1 Leap a couple of days ago. Going to rewatch these videos. So far I love it except for Discover which I couldn't install some software, just like you. I'm going to run it for 30 days and see what happens

[@kevinklement2621]

The new distro high. I know that feels, bro. My favorite distro or window manager is usually whatever I tried most recently.

[@MichaelVash7886]

You're recording in OBS right? I tried opensuse for a few days but had problems with the Nvidia drivers. I plan to try it again once I have a desktop built, I think it was something weird with the laptop gpus. Currently back on mint dual booting with kubuntu, just to see how they differ. Edit: I will say the guided install when it came to setting up my hard drives, opensuse was a lot easier to do something beyond the default than kubuntu and mint.

[@ChrisTitusTech]

Yes sir, OBS all the way. LOVE THE SOFTWARE!

[@Innocentdarkness72]

nice sunday !

[@bitronic1]

i really wanna get back to opensuse, maybe i'll try to tumbleweed when i have time to install... suselinux saved my life... here's my story... I used to have a computer that kept giving me the random BSOD on win xp, it was a athlon 64 3000+ built... no matter how many times i reinstall winxp, it would just gimme bsod... i made sure to install all updates and up to date drivers, even resat the ram and reapplied thermal paste... so i totally gave up on it and built a new intel machine... when i had free time, I played around with linux and tried to experiment new things, i installed SUSE Linux on that old POS and guess what... it runs perfectly w/o crashing... not sure how the miracle came to be but i just went with it, installed a bunch of programs and left it at that... then came one day, when my main computer broke (win 7 boot loop) and I had a D level eassay due the next day (blame me for being the last minute man, when i hand in papers it's usally fresh from the school printer the prof could feel the warmth of it lol), that POS with SUSE linux ended up saving my life as I had no other means of typing the essay up... long live linux! currently running one of my boxes on manjaro, am deciding to convert a spare box to try out the new ubuntu 20.04 but would prefer a rolling release.

[@mikemcmullin149]

I used SuSE years ago, loved YaST, but switched to Ubuntu because of dependency hell. One thing I really missed from SuSE was the (early in development) rescue to tools to fix a corrupted/borked installation,

[@theodoros_1234]

I think Discover is a KDE thing, I don't really like it either.

[@philippecardin1109]

Indeed it is native Plasma application.

[@ChrisTitusTech]

It is, I just uninstalled it and been tinkering around a bit more.

[@peterjansen4826]

​@@ChrisTitusTech Discover is problematic. I recently tried out to install LibreOffice with it, Discover crashed. The first thing it did. Yikes. I also can't stand it that Discover doesn't inform the user about what it is doing, if it isn't crashed. On KDE I recommend a package manager, Pamac should be fine.

[@khai96x]

KDE's Discover, GNOME Software and software stores in general use PackageKit under the hook (in other words, they are but graphical backends of PackageKit). If something fails, it's likely PackageKit's fault.

[@peterjansen4826]

@@khai96x Interesting, then they should switch to a better package-managers like PaMac, Octipy or Muon. (I haven't used Synaptic yet).

[@CadillacBunner]

Thank you! These vids are really helpful. I like your humor as well.

[@JessicaFEREM]

That place where your computer and webcam is like the perfect place since you can put the camera on the monitor and it looks like a computer in a home, put you do what you did in this video, it looks like a set.

[@zazoomatt]

Hey being 2021 Chris just installed LEAP 15.3 from LEAP 15.0 from 42,3 just to run SAMBA for my server. Love your vids and this was great sound.

[@ex0stasis72]

I tried to like KDE Plasma on both Manjaro and KDE Neon, but neither one could get palm detection working on my Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Yoga 3rd Gen using Xorg. So I switched to Wayland, which solved the problem, but introduced massive other problems. Iight try Plasma on my desktop PC at some point though.

[@redrobbosworkshop]

Nice video Chris. I have a love/hate relationship with Tumbleweed. When it works its fantastic - the Suse rolling model is the correct one and potentially superior to Arch. Arch updates will update packages within your installation, whereas a Tumbleweed update puts you effectively onto a new ISO version - it's like jumping between regular fixed releases just far more frequently. Each ISO release is thoroughly tested using Opensue Open QA which should find most bugs.....but not all. be careful with the pacman repo. It's necessary for non-free software and drivers but pacman packages do not form part of Open QA testing, which can be a problem. The other issue for me is the tendency to include packages form non stable upstream branches, e.g. a few weeks ago they were including the non-stable version of Kdenlive. But I'd take this over Arch all day long - rolling done right.

[@shater1164]

;)

[@ex0stasis72]

I remember trying OpenSUSE about 10 years ago. I had problems with pretty bad dependency hell even without using command line. Yast insisted that I manually search for and install each dependency. I dropped immediately. If OpenSUSE has automatic dependency resolution now, I might try it again. Does it?

[@bobgreene2892]

OF COURSE, SUSE HAS A LARGER CONTEXT In the after-glow of installing Suse, you understand why former networking giant Novell chose Suse as its flagship Linux distro, back when Novell put its NOS on a TCP/IP basis, rather than IPX. Technically, Novell achieved renown as a very sharp enterprise, and had Novell's conversion to LInux been sooner/accelerated, Novell's vulnerability to the predations* of Microsoft and Steve Ballmer would have been reduced dramatically. As it gained market share, Microsoft made sure it never marketed its NT servers on the basis of product merit against Novell, but resorted to the usual panopoly of signature dirty tricks, primarily through its control of the Windows client environment. In fact, Microsoft is, by US federal court decision, a predatory monopoly* (although President G.W. Bush rescued MS from punishment and division, Bush did not challenge the court's finding). Novell CEO Eric Schmidt, in his massive misunderstanding of Novell's marketing strategy, did not help matters in the battle with Microsoft. Novell is now part of parent corporation Micro Focus, with a well-established stable of products (Groupwise, Zenworks), and links Suse users directly to Suse. Novell's final benediction with Suse (before Attachmate separated the two companies) was to offer OpenSuse Linux. The Suse history, post-Novell,has been happy and stable, and Suse continues as a very strong EU (Germany) based distro. For those who absolutely cannot stand its default green desktop, Suse makes it easy to change almost everything, as any good Linux distro will.

[@HarryParry2011]

Have been trying Tumbleweed in a VM for 2 months now, didn't dig into it too far, works well; the only thing I don't understand is why the heck it takes hundreds of MBs to download everytime I upgrade; on my other rolling release install (Arch) it is much less and given packeges are also being uninstalled at the same time consumes only little, sometimes even negative increases of disk space. Is it because of the RPM package format? Additionally, the increase in overall disk usage is like 2 GB of space for each and every upgrade, that's highly unacceptable, am I doing sth. wrong?

[@zaidgs]

"Additionally, the increase in overall disk usage is like 2 GB of space for each and every upgrade, that's highly unacceptable, am I doing sth. wrong?" This is probably due to the snapshots feature. Make sure that older snapshots are expiring at a rate that is acceptable to you. After a certain number of snapshots, older snapshots will be deleted as newer ones are created. It might take a while for the system to get to this point of "balance", however, this growth in disk usage will not continue indefinitely, it will plateau. Check this link for additional information: doc.opensuse.org/documentation/leap/reference/html/book.opensuse.reference/cha.snapper.html#sec.snapper.clean-up

[@winnytp]

Does anyone find KDE in OpenSUSE kind of laggy? I tried the live USB of KDE OpenSUSE and simply just dragging windows around seemed slow compared to Fedora KDE, Kubuntu, Debian KDE, etc. It also booted up weirdly into my external monitor setup while other distros seemed fine.

[@roidvoid]

Lots of Linux youtubers do distro reviews. Very few dig into the meat and potatoes of how to get work done. Loved the I3 videos. I'm using I3 on Ubuntu currently. One of the nice things I do when I get sick of terminal for file organization is to just launch Nautilus. The flexibility here over just using TMUX is why I made the switch.

[@bbdgl7413]

I had a similar experience setting up opensuse+kde for a neighbor years ago, i think its the most polished end-user-ready distro out there. I think its what linux people should suggest to newcomers if they don't want to go down the road of friend-level-support and end-user-depression

[@kaziashrafulalam20]

discover works well for me most of the time. Though i use discover to install flatpaks only.it has flatpak integration just like gnome software center. But i do agree its very buggy and annoying sometimes. You should test adapta KDE theme for qt apps and adapta -nokto-eta-maia for gtk2 and gtk3 apps and breeze cursor theme and for icon papirus icons. And thanks for the video.I used opensuse tumbleweed 4-5 months ago when i was a complete noob which i still am but, using arch based manjaro kde i learned many things about linux and kde.

[@papabones8753]

When it comes to "software stores" I kind of like Pamac. I like how minimalist it is and the added bonus of having access to the AUR ijn there graphically.

[@ChrisTitusTech]

Love pamac, and miss it. I might even try porting it over to opensuse.

[@BIGOTEMACHINE]

Do you plan to test gaming? I remember some games steam needed "ext4", I also would like to know how easy is to install Nvidia drivers

[@mattking6718]

If you are using an Ubuntu based Linux there is a PPA for Nvidia which makes it very easy to keep your drivers up to date. itsfoss.com/ubuntu-official-ppa-graphics/

[@ChrisTitusTech]

Just had a 3 hour live stream with Shadow of War using OpenSUSE last night. Everything was on btfs, so I'd say ext4 isn't needed. However, Dropbox still hates that I'm btfs, even with a ext4 partition. So... There is that.

[@xDarkWav]

If you need the ext4 for steam games just change the home partition type from XFS to ext4 during install. Steam games then get installen on ext4 home partition while your system is still on BtrFS. Same applies for Dropbox. NVIDIA Drivers on openSUSE can be a bit complicated, you need to add the nvidia community repo in YaST and then install the drivers from there.

[@BIGOTEMACHINE]

@@ChrisTitusTech I'll wait till the end of the series to see if I switch or add new partition for openSUSE, but I'm really tempted to do it

[@bertnijhof5413]

I have also problems with Discover, the UI for updating the system is one big riddle for me. I switched Kubuntu to a black theme and Discover competed the change to white text, but kept the white background :(

[@jlcgz]

I like KDE but the only problem I had when I installed it on Ubuntu was that I constantly experienced DNS leaks when connecting to any VPN server. Never had that problem with Gnome DE in the same Ubuntu install. Don’t know if kubuntu or other KDE distros have the same issue. This was about two years ago, maybe it’s been fixed since.

[@peterjansen4826]

Chris, maybe it would be interesting if you would try out KDE Neon and Manjaro KDE next (in the meantime you can look at other desktops and window managers with a live-USB or a virtual machine), compare the three systems with KDE. KDE Neon basically is a minimum version of Ubuntu with KDE on it but it doesn't force users to use Snap opposed to Kubuntu.

[@markdandeneau3404]

OpenSuse has a .iso.meta4 ending. Rufus doesn't recognize it. How do I use it?

[@johanb.7869]

You can customise almost anything on KDE. Breeze dark theme is very nice. Personally I don't like the widgets on the desktop. I hear that a lot that Discover store sucks. It seems to get better, but mwah.

[@man-e-faces3242]

openSUSE with Xfce is the best choice!

[@danduby8416]

To Chris Titus, I saw some of your 10 day challenge videos for Arch and openSuse, and I would like to see some videos of you doing a 10 day challenge of my favorite distro which is Tiny Core.

[@emiliokennkierza260]

Can opensuse be installed on an ext4 partition?

[@JeffScott-1978]

Suse Linux. The BMW of Linux distributions. Made in Germany.

[@jantapper1972]

I'm really curious how you like Suse ... We used Suse 9xx like 15 years ago for proxy servers in our enterprise high school surrounding besides Novell servers. With the merge from Novell and Suse back then I'm really curious about the default server functionality and its management options. Especially with its background and how it has developed itself over the years. I know there are other distros more popular/easy for server surroundings these days but that doesnt mean they are better ;)

[@michaelmontgomery5141]

Dude, will you consider screenshots to support how for DIY builds?

[@RoboNTux]

Yeah hahaha, Discover is annoying xD I always uninstall it if I set up a new openSUSE machine, because there is YaST, I don't know why there is this buggy Discover tool preinstalled o.O But as far as I know its comes through KDE. On Kubuntu there is also Discover and it's as bad as it is on openSUSE o.o

[@MrCosmonaut]

KDE has Discover just because there're no alternatives. Muon and Apper are no longer in development and considered as deprecated.

[@RoboNTux]

@@MrCosmonaut Yeah, but on a Distro like opensuse it is complete non sense. It's like having 2 app stores or play stores on your Smartphone. But I find Discover still very buggy. Even if the others stoped being continued.

[@VictorRodriguez-zp2do]

You could try installing Chromium, it's in the the official repos, it's open source and honestly speaking is the exact same thing as chrome any chrome extension works the same in chromium

[@torspedia]

I'm on KDE Neon and the latest version of Discover is working just fine, though it has been hit or miss in the past!

[@zocker1600]

yeah Discover is made for KDE Neon, because there's no Yast like in openSUSE especially in Tumbleweed Discover seams to be bugged very often

[@ktinosGR]

I use openSUSE Leap 15 KDE on a daily bases and i am extremely happy with it. I have not watched the entire series yet but i hope you enjoyed openSUSE

[@brian95240]

I love how much support Dropbox has, between multiple devices. Too bad there isn't a natural compatibility between it and BTRFS. I like the YAST/Pacman repository solution to circumvent Discover's problems. Now, if there were a stable, open source alternative (to Drop Box)... that could be interesting. Not sure how one could improve on it (especially how cheap it is for 2 TB of storage already; p/month).

[@zackattack80]

What are your thoughts on Ubuntu Studio?

[@braelinmichelus]

I thought I was the only Linux nerd that likes Chrome! Hold on to what you like, brother! I've tried Firefox, Opera, and even Qupzilla. Yet, I always come back to Chrome; it's the fastest, most reliable, and best looking browser I've used so far. I'm also an Android user, and use a lot of Google services, so the Google integration is key for me. Curious if you've ever tried the Brave Web Browser. If I ever had to ditch Chrome, I'd probably go for Brave. It's basically Chrome without most of the Google features. I also love the built-in privacy protection and ad-blocking. I'm not a security nut, or anything, but an ad-blocker is a must, and its a nice piece-of-mind to have tracker blocking and the like.

[@joeyallard]

Is it a bad idea to install openSUSE on a ext4 drive?

[@marcozuffada]

What s happened to opensuse tumbleweed ? Last snapshot is 24/12/2018...?!?

[@nomis-cv2ok]

You're mainly talking about KDE. I'm using KDE on arch and it works great. Discover is also a package from KDE and while I'm also not a fan of it you can download and optional dependency on arch so that you can install pacman packages with kde as a front-end and it will notify you when there are updates available for your pacman packages. I prefer a small widget (github.com/I-Dream-in-Code/kde-arch-update-plasmoid) that's just is a small icon that shows you how many updates are available but doesn't bother you with notifications.

[@mdd1963]

i first used Suse back in 2005-2006 or so, and found it easy to install alongside WinXP even back then...

[@bobgrimes8618]

I tend to stay with operating systems forever. I run only IBM OS/2 , CentOS 6.10 and Windows 7 (games only) all on Thinkpads: T-60, T-400 and T-430. My mobile devices are all iOS. I do have an old 2010 iMac simply because I have hundreds of tunes purchased since 2002. That one only exists to sync with my iPod and runs El Capitan.

[@thelovertunisia]

Im a long time linux lover. But you are soo right for people coming from Windows KDE is the most windowsy of all DEs

[@Mohamed-sc6so]

If i search for stability opensusse or pop os?

[@johnknight9150]

I'm thinking of using OpenSuSE next distro upgrade. I don't know why KDE gets so much flack from the Linux community, it's almost like it's viewed as some kind of Microsoft evil empire that needs taking down or something. Discover sucks though. If you like KDE and want something Debian/Ubuntu based, KDE Neon has been surprisingly good to me. Recommended. I'm sick of the .deb system though, so I thought I might go .rpm with SuSE next time.

[@10meisterballe]

I don't like how sudo is configured in openSUSE, it asks for the root password instead of the user password.

[@Staycalm2010]

I have always called BTFS as Butterfly not sure where i got it from

[@jakobw135]

Is it possible to just - TRY - Open Suse, and - NOT - install it from a USB stick?

[@tonebonetones]

I am assuming Open Suse and Kde are specialist Linux distros for IT tech admins, etc? Oh, wow you have Steam icon on the desktop ready to play Steam launched games!

[@bobgrimes8618]

The first and best KDE I used was PCLinuxOS. I have since stuck with simplicity and stability of GNOME 2 on CentOS 6.x. When that loses support at the end of 2020, I’ll just switch to CentOS 7 wither MATE desktop.

[@rwbimbie5854]

Does the EXT4 drive need to have the system for Dropbox, or can we just Mount a small old ext4 to some dir for holding data?

[@rwbimbie5854]

I dont use Dropbox, but the vid said there was a EXT4 hiccup and I was just curious about the problem

[@kderules]

Last time I used openSUSE the auto partitioning was shit. It set up a tiny /home .

[@mattking6718]

A tiny home? How modern.

[@ChrisTitusTech]

This was fixed, out of a 250 SSD, 40 GB to root and 180 or so to Home.

[@BIGOTEMACHINE]

Did you have any trouble with media codec o and media software using open suse? Last time I checked if you don't use flatpack you need to use repository from Germany to install a fully functional vlc or ffmpeg and download was terrible

[@mattking6718]

A really great solution for codecs is the Fluendo codec pack. It's not very expensive, I think it's like $20.00

[@BIGOTEMACHINE]

@@mattking6718 sorry, I m not going to do that, other distros have repos that work perfectly fine, like fusion on fedora

[@mattking6718]

@@BIGOTEMACHINE True, there are a few new DRM encryption types that are only available from the commercial vendors though and if that is something that someone needs fluendo is a good option. :D

[@ChrisTitusTech]

Nope, I was able to get all the codecs install and functional. It was a bit of a pain though as the official repo didn't have the normal package names. So I had to hunt around for them all.

[@emjaycee]

They were my biggest issues with SUSE as well. Struggled to get VLC working and struggled with media codecs to get Opera fully functional. Any distro that makes those things hard for me doesn't last long lol. KDE Neon and Manjaro KDE have been my favourite KDE distros thus far... and they're both quite different from each other, too.

[@jaygames1980]

I love OpenSuse or any original distro you can do more and less problems.

[@michadybczak4862]

I'm curious about the next days. My Suse experience was always like a quick and painless run into a wall. Lack of applications that were so obvious and easily accessible on Manjaro forced me to add some repos or hunt rpm packages but got so many errors and eventually borked out the system. I tried Suse twice and it broke twice. I hate rpm distros. The way they handle dependencies and their package managers are like taken live from linux dark ages were dependency hell was a thing. Hell, it is still a thing in Suse! I just don't have the patience for such distro. I need to have easy access to all packages that Linux offers and that's Arch. As to Plasma, this is my favorite DE and all others feel like retarded versions. It's so deep that after using it for years I'm still learning new stuff about it, so doing expertise videos so quickly will surely show how little you know in eyes of long-term Plasma users ;). EDIT: Most people on YT pronounce it "ButterFS" so you're not the only one ;).

[@joshfreeno5527]

I can never theme kde the way I want. I know the themes are there but they do not look right to me. Opensuse was my first distro and I was lost sooo bad.

[@emmanuelgxlden7170]

are you using the leap or tumbleweed ? what could you recommend me please ?

[@stormglass2882]

I don't get it. Why would you be messing with Discover if you have YaST and zypper which are native to the OS?! Is this a newbie thing? I don't go to Debian looking to use Yum! BTRFS is too bleeding-edge for me, ext4 still works great. And that mess of Packagekit, like another person also commented, first thing I do after any install, is deinstall and block the damn thing. I used openSuSE for years (like since v6.0), and never a problem.

[@VictorRodriguez-zp2do]

I use i3wm 99% of the time and I feel lost when using something else, I just can't feel at home without all my keybindings

[@cthedosboss5113]

same

[@ChrisTitusTech]

I can totally see this, as i3 once learned can be extremely efficient.

[@PearComputingDevices]

I used Suse back with 9.2, it was insanely easy and fairly flexable back the then. The problem I had was memory use. KDE as we all know is a memory hog Gnome was like a breath of fresh air in my book from Windows to KDE. If your a new user KDE's massive flexibility can become a bit cluttered. Sure for advanced users it's great. But if your a grandma.. That's why I always thought Gnome 2 just made sense and it used less resources. Gnome 3 changed my mind on all of this of course. Unity ain't no better in that regard.

[@jenspen]

Some of us grandmas love KDE

[@cr0ft-2k]

Removed Firefox? Philistine! :)