The OpenSUSE Install

It has been years since I've installed OpenSUSE. Let's try the tumbleweed setup with their Open Build service.
Chapters:
00:00:00 - Why Wipe it out
00:02:41 - Download and Prep Work
00:07:46 - Which Version Rolling or Stable
00:15:39 - The Install Begins
00:18:41 - Custom Partitioning
00:24:33 - Software Selection
00:28:32 - Initial Boot
00:32:31 - Fixing Home Permissions
00:42:38 - Finally the Desktop
01:15:10 - Looking at Yast
01:49:03 - OPI is AMAZING
02:09:37 - Wrapping Up Questions .
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[@Neumah]

This was a pretty informative video. Being sort of a linux noob it was nice to see the thought process of someone who knows linux and troubleshooting things in real time. That's something I've rarely seen before. 👍

[@AshlynOrSomethin]

I can't tell what, but something about this video makes me really happy :)

[@mohamad20zx34]

Thanks for your opensuse tumbleweed installation mr Chris i have always wanted to switch from Fedora after the ibm crisis

[@sirdee9607]

I love my Tumbleweed Slowroll, great Video

[@EuroNiceguy]

I moved to OpenSuse Leap more recently myself. I have been using it solid for 2 months, and so far I am happy. It is funny that you mentioned about moving away from OpenSuse, as I did the same myself. But since coming back, I am very happy with it. You are right about Yast, I was struggling to use CUPS for the Toshiba e-Studio, but Yast made the printer integration much easier. Fingers crossed that OpenSuse can keep impressing everyone.

[@pamus6242]

Long time Linux user since 1999. Tumbleweed is No.1 in my experience. No. 2 Debian Bookworm. No. 3 Fedora Silverblue/Kinoite/Workstation/sway No. 4 Nix Os No. 5 Ubuntu sway. That being said Nothing comes close to Tumbleweed in having all the good features and benefits of all the other distributions with hard to find the bad ones. So far nothing bad - since 5 years.

[@xperience-evolution]

Agreed on Tumbleweed. Underrated and one of the best - for me THE best

[@pamus6242]

@@xperience-evolution Tumbleweed reminds me of Mandrake Linux back from 2003. It feels and operates on the same level.

[@pavelperina7629]

Hard to say. I was using OpenSuse Leap for a while in virtual machine and one home server, but I wanted new usb wifi dongle and kernel was too old. So I installed Fedora38 and to my surprise, it's quite similar, very stable as well, more up to date and I stayed. My experience with Fedora in the past were quite bad - KDE was basically broken, it did not contain even mp3 support, but now I was able to crash leap playing video, I was not able to crash fedora. True is that by default neither distro has good support for it, but it's running on something which is more server than anything else. And because it basically just runs podman containers, distro is not important. Actually ... I prefer having up to date python and some c++ libraries.

[@kbaeve]

Agree. Linux user on off since 1998 here (Red Hat 5.2), and been through them all. Always underestimated OpenSUSE tumbleweed, but this is probably the very best for distro. The rollback makes it polite even if rolling. Arch always break when your on a deadline, and Debian is always good but outdated when you after a while need version X

[@RedSaint83]

Only reason I went with OpenSUSE some 20+ years ago was because I could choose between KDE and Gnome so I could learn about the difference. Kind of glad they've stuck around. Will definitely become my daily driver in the not so distant future. Also, absolutely nothing wrong with getting good at wiping and reinstalling your system, it's a muscle you gotta train.

[@YaHadiAwg]

I'm using OpenSuse Tumbleweed now...awesome.

[@Bruce.ItsYourPC]

I have installed and configured openSUSE Tumbleweed numerous time. I have never seen such a convoluted mess you have going on here. Absolutely comical.

[@AlexanderAddams]

I just installed it before seeing this video. I have no idea what he's doing. Like, click, click, click, uid password, click, done. Open discover, install browser of choice.

[@MaS-ch2id]

This is so interesting (not having this whatched) - I just installed tumbleweed KDE, no bugs compared to fedora KDE, and the learningcurve is on, thanks for this video for learning

[@dunkelwelpling]

KDE seems very polished on OpenSUSE, even when using fractional scaling.

[@MaS-ch2id]

It is as far as I can tell. Fedora KDE had some bugs with packagekit not resolving the repos, so software center (forgot the name) was not updateing. Until now, I found solutions for every tiny problem on Suse which where not many, and the rest is learning linux I gues @@dunkelwelpling

[@MrYossarianuk]

Fresh installs are liberating.. I always avoid copying /home as sometimes the configs (~/config/local, etc) in there can conflict with different versions of the software on the new OS.

[@cheebadigga4092]

Ideas for next poll: Gentoo vs. Void vs. Solus (if and when they release a new version with the new SerpentOS base) vs. SerpentOS (if a stable version has been released by that time) LFS was also a great suggestion. Get Yocto or Buildroot and build your own Linux distro. However not really practical for a "moving" system where you have to update packages every now and then, since you'll have to rebuild your whole Linux each time. Although you could write your own package manager, that would be fun lol

[@thebetamaxman]

Sorry for being late to this video, but one wont have to worry about home permissions if you create a home partition during a linux install you can then install any distro select the home partition as mount but not format, and when setting up the new or second distro user account you select the home folder name as the user all permissions are automatically set. You can even do this with more than one distro or linux install. I had when I was young and given to self torture and exploring linux had a half dozen or so different distros using the same home partition and folder. And windows on a separate drive and shared my mozilla email folder in a fat partition between all distros and windows as well. Needed windows for things that refused to run with wine, such as tax software and my harmony remote setup. Thanks for the video

[@riggitywrckd4325]

About 25 years ago I loved suse, so green so Linux. I liked the lizard a lot as well.

[@MG-vv1zi]

LFS would be cool to see next time. Thanks a lot

[@patrickeastman1639]

man i haven't seen OpenSUSE in over a decade, it was my first distro and made me fall in love with Linux lol, im on Manjaro now, Arch based :D

[@Gilded30]

just loved your installation, personally im just using the typical kde on tumbleweed and has been amazing (even on nvidia + wayland) but probably in a future will change to install to gnome or if i feel brave i will try hyprland

[@RobMoerland]

Wiped one of my laptops this week and installed Linux Mint. Just to explore. OpenSUSE is next on the list. It was my daily driver when it was still call SUSE Linux.

[@AshlynOrSomethin]

SUSE is still it's own thing, OpenSUSE is just a community first version, even if it's still backed by SUSE

[@RobMoerland]

​@@AshlynOrSomethinWhich proves I have ignored SuSE/SUSE Linux/OpenSUSE far too long.

[@RandomGeometryDashStuff]

09:11 sid sometimes ends up with non-installable packages because some package get updated but dependency is still too old

[@NormanF62]

If you replace the Tumbleweed repos with Slow Roll, you get a happy medium between stable and bleeding edge. That’s the future of openSUSE after Leap is finally phased out for good. 😊

[@replikvltyoutube3727]

Can't wait for FreeBSD!

[@livemadseason]

OpenSUSE - does not enable Bluetooth on login screen. I have connected my BT keyboard and mouse to PC via USB and installed another distro 😅

[@QuestionTheTruth]

@ChrisTitusTech; Do you have a default packages list?

[@prajyot_utekar]

I would love to see gentoo next so beginners can know something before diving into lfs and then bsd.

[@mqamar007]

Titus what do you think about LMDE? LMDE 6 is out

[@suyogmule3630]

I want to use OpenSUSE as my daily driver but zypper downloads are painfully slow in India as there is no mirrors in India and zypper does not support parallel downloads yet. so update takes like 2 3 hours

[@cheebadigga4092]

When you first executed make on dwm, it already had cached every build artifact that needed Xlib devel packages due to copying your home folder previously (you've probably compiled it on Arch once before). When you changed the config source code, that one probably needed Xlib as a dependency and the build system ignored the cached files for it because of that code change. Hence why you needed Xlib all of a sudden. Nothing to do with installing GCC at all. Nothing odd, nothing strage with that. Just how make works and ensures sane compilation artifacts.

[@shatterstone3045]

I'd love to see Gentoo or LFS next. That would be incredible. Also, you mentioned speed differences between Linux distros and Windows. I'm dual booting currently, and even after using winutil, Windows 10 still feels quite a bit slower than Linux.

[@ingen6351]

i concur

[@dunkelwelpling]

And Windows 10 is actually a bit faster than 11, can you believe it!?

[@Noriaela]

@@dunkelwelpling If Windows 10 is faster than 11 for you then your hardware is the issue. W11 has a much better task scheduler which makes the system run so much better and more optimally than 10 does.

[@rowlul]

@@Noriaela naah w10 ftw

[@dunkelwelpling]

@@Noriaela I mean i was running Windows 11 before switching to OpenSUSE, because it looked better and i liked that i could get Smartphone Apps out of the Windows Store instead of using an emulator like BlueStacks. But i had lots of friends that sticked to 10, because "it felt faster".

[@CausticAscarite]

watched the vid to the very end, not disappointed. also renaming packages deserves mega punishment in personal hel i agree ur sincere, suse fanboy

[@MrGFYne1337357]

You don't have to move your home folder, just choose manual partitioning, and when you choose your home partition, choose DO NOT FORMAT. And Bam! your home folder is still there. Tip: use your same user and password and BAM BAM! now your home folder and permissions all work just like before. Doesn't everyone know this?

[@MrPelzi91]

He just did that but he moved the home folder to another drive and formatted the other drive. Also the permissions didn’t work for him at first

[@seedofstun]

i get stuck on the "loading basic drivers" screen :/

[@DS-ou7xm]

Tried tunbleweed, but switched to Leep because it was just too much of a hassle with continuous updated - guess that is why it's a rolling release. But now with all the Leep news, I just might switch back to tunbleweed or just plainly switch to Debian 🤔

[@basilcat3111]

Maybe openSUSE Slowroll might be for you? Rolling, but with less updates.

[@TheKartas39]

I used to use tw a lot, but it becomes broken too often after kernel or Nvidia driver updates. Or just updates. Returned back to Ubuntu

[@MazZedong]

Interesting, I've done a good few updates now in the last year with TW and haven't had any problems. I often wonder though if it's just luck 😂

[@TheMadricks]

I'm don't get Hyprland not working in the right way. Used the installscript, but still not working on the right way. I'm think I'm have to read the whole manpage of Hyprland to build my own configfile.

[@christenorio81]

I want to transition to linux with windows 10 pro subsystem for Linux teach me

[@northof-62]

OpenSUSE! Resubbed

[@openbabel]

Openindiana may just good for you...its debien based with a Solaris kernel sounds great. Downside its a steep learning curve for non techies seeking desktop replacements for windows. Very capable in he hands of a knowledge user. P.S very upset with Kubantu as the sound problem still occurs with the latest release this week.

[@AlexMayne]

would love to see what that ice desktop is

[@RandomGeometryDashStuff]

48:16 I think the only error is "The profile appears to be in use by another B...". Everything else are warnings.

[@ChrispyNut]

This was good. I used OpenSUSE in my early Linux days, but not used in more than several years. Keep thinking of giving it an install but ... meh. This has fed the temptation.

[@dunkelwelpling]

You should try it!

[@alanifotis7190]

Welcome to suse

[@emadahmadpour984]

I really want you to do a BSD OS and figure out gaming on it :D

[@Sharp931]

I can only select text in w3m, if i'm in edit mode. Obviously. Why didn't you installed the flatpak package is beyond me.

[@unclefester9113]

With all of OpenSUSE's history..... The size of their corporate footprint and the number of developers - Its really odd - that they don't have a more commanding position in the world of Linux Distro's.

[@digitalsparky]

This would've been a fun stream to watch, I hear there was one where you rage quit coz of opensuse being difficult? LOL. Hopefully I'll get to catch you on stream again :).

[@RandomGeometryDashStuff]

01:11:04 I think it's because you compiled dwm on different linux install that had all needed header files and you changed file so it needs to be recompiled

[@hawk_7000]

Indeed, pretty sure everything was already compiled from before (and no files had been changed so no recompiled was triggered). This would also explain the weirdness the first time around after dwm had been installed but did not run because some library was missing. How would it have even compiled? I guess the answer is that it would not (on multiple counts of missing libraries and header files), and did not; it just checked that all the object files were up to date and then used what was already compiled from before.

[@mahiabir6348]

Finally took the plunge I see

[@comesignotus9888]

FreeBSD next, please. Not Linux, but still fun.

[@nasanasax3757]

Nice :D you need to show us SLACKWARE Linux :D That was my first linux :)

[@MartyAckerman310]

yeah but Chris needs to install it off a stack of 3.5" floppies

[@brainstormsurge154]

39:10 Funny, I'm kind of new to Linux and have done my best to document everything I do. It's a mess but I am putting together lists of packages I want in a system. From basic stuff like bat and Neovim to anything else I want. Yet to make a script but will at least have that list.

[@andrewjamesbarton07]

i love linux but as a noob when it comes to the terminal and commands and i have been trying for years to learn , and wish someone could teach me lol ... as seen in the vid that even master users still have difficulty installing and setting up linux , how would the rest of us ever figure this out.. :) i think that there needs to be a distro that is almost identical to windows and how it operates (still with the terminal for power users and people that what to learn the best way to install) eg , like installing programmes , etc so that more users can switch over and bin windows forever .. i could be wrong , just my thoughts .

[@mckendrick7672]

It's not really that "master users" have difficulty installing and setting up Linux - it's just that they spend a lot of time making things more difficult for themselves - which is exactly what Chris has done here. There will never be a Linux distro which can be "exactly" what Windows is, because Linux isn't Windows, and you shouldn't try to force it to be. Windows isn't really any simpler than a normal Linux installation, it's just that you're far more used to it - it tends to be far easier to teach someone who knows nothing about using computers how to use Linux than it is to teach a Windows users to use Linux, because your average Windows user has expectations about how they think a computer should run.

[@ryd3v]

Serial distro installer here hello xD

[@PedroHenriqueQuiteteBarreto]

Why not Slackware?

[@hansformation]

titus where can I join this chat on chattino??? which you show in your videos

[@CVLova]

Its his twitch chat

[@basilcat3111]

I tried many distros over 2 years, and last year, i chose openSUSE as a daily driver. Or, in other words, it chose me.

[@redhawk3385]

There we're so many easier ways to do all of this lol. A separate partition for the home folder, or using opi to install brave. The amount of time you spend on it.

[@_xolari]

openSUSE hype

[@cheebadigga4092]

A separate home partition is much easier than moving things around.

[@englishchannel7523]

So this was more about Debian Sid. Putting everyone on the harm's way

[@matthiasurankar6354]

Im right there with ya. Debain or Arch. Been on Arch daily driving for the first ever. Been dailing for almost 6 months now. Steam and Epic run just fine.

[@FinalManaTrigger]

Had to install OpenSUSE about 6 months ago for a project... it was a nightmare. Dependency nightmare. The firewall and servers were missing needed components, and even switching between repositories and trying to look for those files did not work. Maybe it was just bad timing because they had just come out with a new version, but it left a bad taste in my mouth.

[@Techonsapevole]

I should have chosen OpenSUSE MicroOS

[@mattfoster]

they only chose the rolling release because they love seeing you break stuff as do i.

[@eyzake]

ao well here is the deal in our grp everyone uses different distro. i use debian another one uses fedora and i asked my homie whats he gonna use he said i will be using open suse and well i am here to see why he choose this distro

[@shamrock-]

But...distros dont matter

[@boscorner]

But open suse has cool lizard

[@Bohdysattva]

I would have picked the stable version :)

[@remigoldbach9608]

Void Linux and FreeBSD are great

[@remigoldbach9608]

@copiuumx Definitely !

[@juipeltje]

Yesss i love void. Favorite distro at the moment, followed closely by arch.

[@ytfeelslikenorthkorea]

SuSE - the only OS system I paid for. And, laughing point, Suse 6.2 was the first OS I paid for EVER - everything before that was either included (C-64 DOS, Amiga OS) or pirated (Windows :)) 5:42 why not simply exclude dirs you don't need to rsync? And for du, I have it engrained in my brain forever du --si --max-depth=1 . :D

[@adamt3149]

hmm... opensuse littery crash on me switch to arch

[@ChrisJackson-js8rd]

do netbsd next :)

[@ChrisJackson-js8rd]

or hurd lol

[@KriszFodor]

Switched my personal laptop to openSuse around 6 months ago and despite going with the bloated KDE install I am still quite satisfied (its a 3500U system and it still feels snappy for whatever I throw at it) so far and don't have any major complaints. The constant updates can be a tad annoying, so am considering going to their new "Slowroll" release (the in-between version). As far as the install experience goes as a newbie the disk partitioner was by far the hardest part of it at least to me as the default suggestions were a bit confusing. Looking forward to seeing what you do with the distro and how you like it in the end!

[@dunkelwelpling]

I was thinking of switching to Leap too. The reason why i chose Tumbleweed in the first place, was because of gaming, but i've seen a benchmark where Leap achieved the same fps, so i don't see much benefits from using it over Leap. But i'm not in a hurry and i also fear the transition from Leap to Slowroll could be a bit messy.

[@xperience-evolution]

"Sudo zypper dup" to update Tumbleweed.

[@basilcat3111]

Zypper

[@xperience-evolution]

What a mistake. Thanks. Corrected.@@basilcat3111

[@kaletsu2270]

Next Linux From Scratch

[@max-lee]

i dont know why but innstalling suse took me ages. i just abort and install something else.

[@MartyAckerman310]

4.3 gig download 💀💀 I'm a guy who started with a stack of 40 or so 1.44 Mb Slackware install disks, so maybe 60Mb total. Oh how times have changed

[@user-tw2kr6hg4r]

Try debian Hurd

[@Rathika5]

Slackware.... ;)

[@anasouardini]

Even debian-"stable" is not that stable.

[@petar0402]

Ah, yes.. Tumbleweed. Where do I begin? For starters, it DID NOT install grub, or at least it said it did, but it did not show up. Then when I manually fixed that, network issues occured on the very first boot. It could ping IP adresses but it did not resolve anything. And then some people say Arch Linux is hard. I'm an Arch user for about 11 years now. NEVER had any THIS stupid issues with it or any other distro unlike openSUSE which now is mayor failure in my book.

[@alvaroluffybr]

Maybe it was your usb? If you didnt make it uefi that can happen

[@petar0402]

@@alvaroluffybr I did it in QEMU VM, not from USB. As and "old" Arch user, you really think I didn't know how to do what needs to be done?

[@alvaroluffybr]

@@petar0402 sometimes these things happen

[@junioralmeidatecnologia]

Que saco hein

[@memo_force]

Free Palestine 🇵🇸

[@kxxxk_]

no thanks

[@589amf]

Free Palestine

[@dunkelwelpling]

I'm German and with Palestine! Jews did us no good, u see?

[@LiveLife378]

Never been really free. Not a topic to discuss here

[@paherbst524]

Ok, terrorist

[@novoiperkele]

22:20 buntu? barf, leaving.. goodbye fanboy