openSUSE - 1 Year Later

[@TheLinuxCast]

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[@TechnoMinded-qp5in]

I love the videos you make about Linux I've been using Windows since as a kid on Windows XP however Windows has been my safe spot for years until I heard about Windows Recall which is making me have second thoughts about Windows let me know if you can make Meta Link or Air Link work on Linux and I will officially switch so far Linux Mint is as close to feeling like I am using Windows I am having major trust problems with Windows 11 24H2 about to be released and I might force myself to use Linux at this point I am getting better at konsole commands though.

[@Delos-33]

It's crazy that the stability of this distro goes unnoticed in the Linux world. I have always had every rolling release distro break on me within 3-4 months from simple updates, but OpenSuse ... it is yet to happen in more than 2 years.

[@ericclark9770]

Remember buying boxed copies of SuSE Professional 25+ years ago - still happily running Opensuse on my laptop to this day.

[@Cyco_Nix]

Worked at one of the large computer companies back in the 90s. I remember Red Hat came around first and showed us their OS and we, of course, played around with it and I ran it for a while. Then here comes German Linux company came in and showed us their take on Linux. Yeah, I really liked that more than Red Hat. That was my first glimpse of SuSE. They really had it down early on, better than the others. They just didn't have the push here in the US.

[@TechnoMinded-qp5in]

Someone needs to make a Frutiger Aero theme for Linux to revive the frutiger Aero on Linux if anyone might be able to revive it is Linux Mint that would be nice if someone brought it back I know KDE Plasma has Frutiger Aero themes but that would be nice if someone around Linux just decided to bring back Aero Effects but with Linux I'm looking at older boxed copies like Whitewolf64 on Linux Freedom that don't exist anymore that was established around Frutiger Aero I wish Linux distributions would bring it back the theming on Linux feels endless though compared to Windows.

[@DNFINST]

"it's fun, I don't know why it's fun, but it's fun" Me trying to talk to my wife.

[@loucipher7782]

guess she don't like sex

[@metalovytatko]

I've installed openSUSE Tumbleweed (along with KDE) being inspired by you, Matt..and so far, it just works, yes, Mint has worked for me as well, but openSUSE is just more attractive to me. And I am not much of a tinkerer, so no unexpected crashes :) Great video, great experience.

[@und3rpr]

Opensuse is absolutely phenomenal. Cured my distrohopping

[@TylerRayPittman]

@@und3rpr same. YaST comes in handy so much, anytime it breaks it seems to fix itself lol. Been on tumbleweed for over a year myself, plan on staying

[@prinnydood7920]

For me arch linux is perfect :3 Simple as well ^^ depending on what you do :3

[@TotopoDoge]

@@prinnydood7920 ok

[@xsymbiotic]

@@prinnydood7920 btw

[@KoopavonRox]

I'm using openSUSE tumbleweed as well and I love it!

[@ThecatThecat-hq1op]

I decided to use opensuse tumbleweed as my first distro cause of your first video. Stable + Rolling Release sounded crazy.

[@advaitc2554]

I also got hit with that recent TW Mesa bug. Messed up my system. Got it fixed in about 3 minutes with a simple rollback. I love Btrfs and snapshots. 😎😊

[@Bareego]

Also had an issue with Mint 22 upgrade, as it really fscked up the nvidia driver, so rollback to an older snapshot was great, did it without Btrfs though. Am too lazy to reinstall atm but next time I do a complete reinstall of the main machine it'll be with Btrfs.

[@TH_unspecific]

just installed today, your videos inspired me to try it (coming from fedora, i was having some annoying KDE bugs). so far the bugs i had on fedora are non-existent on SUSE.

[@jayarmstrong]

One of the things SUSE does brilliantly is BTRFS subvolume layout. Only the essential directories are snapshotted. It's a PITA to set that up on Fedora (or Ubuntu), then set up snapshots, then GRUB-btrfs boot menu, etc. Glad they are at least trying to speed up zypper. It's painfully slow to just get one package (99% of the time is spent waiting on zypper to update repos if they were more than ten minutes old). When I was in EU, it was so much faster, so maybe that's why the devs haven't cared? Openbuild is also great. And the wide choice of DEs in the installer.

[@AustinHulslander]

I just upgraded my desktop and was trying to decide on a new distribution. My original intention was to do a new install of gentoo. From your recommendation, I installed openSUSE eight the intention of using it while I ironed out the kinks of a gentoo install on the other ssd. After a few days, I don’t think I’ll be leaving openSUSE for the foreseeable future, I’m hoping I can keep it for a long time.

[@pillmuncher67]

S.u.S.E. Linux 4.2 was my first distro in 1996. I remember it fondly. I might return to it.

[@the_real_bitterman]

You can run distrobox and have the AUR on openSUSE as well. Aeon has distrobox installed by default.

[@sebastianbauer4768]

And that’s why package manager and software availability ceased to be an argument for distro choice for me. These days it’s all about the base system for me, how solid is it, how often does it get updated, do they test it before pushing it to people and ruining their weekend etc. It’s not just distrobox giving me access to arch AUR, I also have access to Debian testing, Ubuntu, homebrew, NixOS or flathub. These days, and the question does have to be asked, it’s about who has the highest *quality* packages. That why I personally like the Fedora atomic desktops, very solid, you can either use the current version for newest base or the previous one if you want a more stable one. I use the ublue images though for one simple reason, the mixing of the Fedora package base with third party driver and codec packages happens upstream instead of on my system. If there is any problem there, and it’s one of the most problem rich areas for any distro, the image doesn’t built successfully and is never pushed to my system. It prevents breakage instead of fixing breakage. To me that’s the superior approach.

[@dezmondwhitney1208]

I have been using openSuse KDE for years. It is the LTS version and I think it is great. Migrating to Tumbleweed is appealing. However, the thought of broken packages etc sort of scares me a bit. That is all that has prevented me from going to Tumbleweed. Thanks for these fine videos.

[@brunombardi]

I'm in love with OpenSuse. What a fantastic distro... the best I've tried until now. Thanks for your videos Matt.

[@pip5528]

I use Tumbleweed on an old HP 8200 Elite SFF with 20 GB of RAM, a SATA SSD, and a 1050 ti as upgrades. Wayland stutters a bit in games but otherwise works well. Wayland wouldn't work at all on Debian on that machine. Counterintuitively I need a newer kernel on that old machine because the USB Wi-Fi dongle's drivers aren't in older kernels like really early 6 or 5. I can also attent to stability because I went over a week without updating and mirrors timed out at first but I refreshed the repos, updated, and then it just worked.

[@BytebroUK]

Not trying to be 'reply-guy' here, but one distro I've played with that also does btrfs well is Garuda; as you said for OpenSuse, it's on by default, and just works. Grub menu gives me any snapshot straight back.

[@Soosheon]

I've been on Garuda for 2 years now and I relish this feature, even if I don't use it often at all.

[@BytebroUK]

@@Soosheon Had to use it just once. Nothing to do with this current CrowdStrike screw-up, but I'd updated something that broke stuff, and that broke lots of other stuff, so reboot, hit the Grub menu, and bang(!) I'm back where I was. Nice to have that safety-belt, I guess!

[@robbiet4028]

I tried Garuda because I wanted to try arch but I’m too busy to learn the installer and Garuda has the configs I want anyway with fish and KDE and all that. Btrfs is also a huge plus. I’m very pleased with it

[@thedeemon]

Interesting, thanks! Made me appreciate the things I have in the distro I've been using for almost 3 years now: stable rolling distro with no hiccups and working great, fast parallel downloads and many mirrors worldwide, fast boot, pre-configured btrfs (frankly, I never tried its rollback feature, never needed to), and more (like nicely set up zsh). It's Manjaro.

[@Automata_Omega]

Totally agreed with your experiences about openSUSE, I use it too for many years now, and it never let me down! One thing to note: please for gods sake dont ever say debian is rock solid, its very misleading, and never mention debian and opensuse in the same sentence, and do not even compare their performance: I did a debian 12 kde install yesterday, full fresh install, updated rebooted, all was good, then powered off for the night, and next day when i wanted to boot: boom VFS ext4 filesystem not found! openSUSE is THE (!!!!!) most stable and solid distro! Period. Hands down

[@Maitreya3001]

I found your channel when I wanted to find some info on OpenSUSE. Installed it and loved it for a while. The update from the 6.8 to 6.9 kernel introduced some problems and gaming performance regressions so I went back to distro hopping and stuck on Nobara and I’m happy with that for now. OpenSUSE is awesome and I would like to jump back to it but I can’t justify it just yet over what GE does in nobara at the moment. Also on OpenSUSE I had an issue where Bluetooth would have to manually be started on every reboot.

[@perone8458]

13:15 Matt, I think Zypper always checks repos when autorefresh is on. Disabling it makes zypper WAY faster.

[@Loonix-jx2vl]

About the system freezing during boot, I have it on my laptop in pretty much all distros. In fact, the boot never continues in my case. A fix I discovered was adding the boot entry option: nvme_core.default_ps_max_latency_us=5

[@PedroRosado22]

I've been using Tumbleweed with Plasma (might as well start using that name only) for about seven years.

[@sebastianriquelme3513]

Went with Aeon, I'm never moving back to mutable distros on the desktop. It is just so good.

[@binarybebe]

Hi Matt, On a Dell Precision (entry level PC Intel i3-10100) with a 500 GB SSD, Tumbleweed boots in about 16 seconds. The install is not encrypted. You should look into why your machine takes so long to boot. Great video! :)

[@TheLinuxCast]

Yeah, I did do that. It's a systemd service that has caused problems for others. The only real solution seems to be disabling the service.

[@Norman_Fleming]

I used OpenSuse many years ago. Even purchased it with manuals. Probably a couple times since then. I don't remember having problems with it. Think it was rather fun at the time.

[@markldevine]

OpenSUSE Tumbleweed is my go to. My work (USA company) makes us use RHEL, which is pretty solid, but it doesn't have anything on SLES/OpenSUSE. People just don't get it, until they try. The quality just slowly overtakes you. I'm a snob now.

[@TheLinuxCast]

@@markldevine me too.

[@krazykat64]

Tumbleweed was my go to on my Thinkpad for a very long time but I recently switched to Leap. Not because Tumbleweed is unstable, I just got tired of updating all the time. But current software isn’t the reason I love openSUSE. It’s all the other tools they have that make it so much easier to do a lot of things. They make stuff like setting up a virtual machine manager a breeze.

[@themroc8231]

That's the reason I am so impatient about Slowroll getting to alpha. Rolling release but with a monthly batch of updates sounds like a dream to me.

[@xperience-evolution]

The moment I discovered openSUSE Tumbleweed was the moment I stopped switch Linux Distros. I might try Aeon at some point. So an immutable Tumbleweed.

[@car-soap]

Awesome Video!

[@tutacat]

Flatpak by default installs to your user / .var directory. They will set system install as default to share packages between users.

[@marioprawirosudiro7301]

Also on openSUSE, and what you're saying is spot on. So far, zypper has been the weakest link in my openSUSE experience, simply because the mirrors are sooo slow. I managed to circumvent it somewhat by switching to a Japanese mirror (I live in Asia), but it's not an ideal solution, even if switching mirror is (admittedly) easy. Other than that, it's been rock solid for me. My Steam and GOG games work right away, and YaST makes administrating everything simple. I think it cured my distrohopping...

[@egyeneskifli7808]

I really don't know what really happened in that MESA issue, but I was unable to restore any snapshots. All of those and the Snapper config just lost in the process.

[@autobahnmensch]

Been using Pop! On my main laptop for 2.5 years. Distro hopping on others. Kubuntu feels like home for now.

[@skafiend4319]

+ for btrfs. I just set it up on fedora with timeshift and I absolutely love that feature :)

[@bug_catcher_bob]

I tried using openSUSE Tumbleweed after watching your videos, and I must say it’s incredibly stable compared to all the other distros I’ve used before. 😄 Also, I really like the default wallpaper. 🖼 However, zypper seems a bit slow. 🐢

[@TheLinuxCast]

it is a bit slow. My rec would be to automate it as much as possible, and then just get used to doing other things while it works

[@FastWReX]

"Installing Linux, because I'm a nerd, is fun!" When you said that, I felt like I was finally seen LOL Excellent quote my guy!

[@cjcox]

I do have a Tumbleweed platform that takes 30 seconds to boot, it's a 1st gen Core2 Duo laptop. Most of mine (physical hosts) take less than 10 seconds. Just saying.

[@BR7Fan71]

I feel you on the distro hopping. I have the distro hop brain bug. I don't know why I don't use a virtual machine. I have to see the next shiny new distro toy lol I'm actually installing Opensense as we speak...thanks for that 😂

[@lolkthnxbai]

I've had a zypper mirror timeout during the install and I had no way of knowing it failed or figuring out how to fix it, I ended up having to start the installer all over after I noticed it not moving for almost 20 minutes. Outside of that? I enjoy it, openSUSE I feel is poised to take the spot that CentOS & Fedora have forgotten about or just flat out ignored. Good stable enterprise linux with a rolling release option, the way btrfs is configured out the box is also the primary reason I have no interest in changing. It allows me to do actual work on linux without having to worry about my system once I have it setup the way I want it.

[@IgnoreMyChan]

My problem with OpenSUSE was the compatibility with (external) RedHat RPM's and/or repositories that I need for my work. Maybe I need more time for that but I just didn't figure out how to get them to work.

[@H725-0]

TW is basically perfect and impressive for stability and hardware compatibility

[@tunin6844]

I run a music player or read a book while zypper runs. I am on a fairly slow internet connection, and I sometimes have the downloads time out with a prompt to allow it to retry the download. With things being that way, I keep the terminal up to view as zypper runs just so I can keep tabs on whether it has hit an issue or not due to my poor internet service.

[@juipeltje]

I tried tumbleweed for a little bit when i felt like i wanted some more recent packages coming from void linux, but didn't want to give up the stability of xbps by going to arch, and zypper seemed very stable as well (unfortunately a bit slow though). I didn't end up liking it all that much but that wasn't suse's fault, just that it wasn't my preference. Ever since i moved to distros like arch and void i can't stand distros that aren't minimal anymore. I felt the same way with fedora. Felt like too much of a struggle to try and make it minimal enough to my liking. My three favorite distros now are nixos, void, and arch, all because of how minimal they are, or in the case of nixos, how you can still make it completely your own with your own config regardless of what comes preinstalled.

[@AslamNazeerShaikh]

Opensuse is killer ❤

[@Jaymal10]

My first Linux os was open suse KDE back in 05. Still have the cds I burned it to

[@kkit41]

19:28 I usually use "sudo flatpak update/install" in terminal to avoid flatpak asking password in the midway

[@tle5380]

@TheLinuxCast The reason the packman software repo is not available in all countries is : software patents. Software patents aren't valid in Europe while they are in many other countries. I don't know if China recognise software patents or if they are also hosted there but I guess no US company will ever send a cease and desist to a chinese mirror anyway. At least not successfully.

[@robertnicora7566]

Intéressant

[@etch-6261]

i have a similar problem, when i restart or shut down sometimes it takes a minute or 2, i will keep an eye to see if it happens at startup too!

[@CXVMNER]

I've been daily driving openSUSE for the last 2 years. Unfortunately my ssd malfunctioned, so I switched to CachyOS. So far it's been solid.

[@diotitus]

That was an awesome review Matt! OpenSUSE is definitely a pretty decent Linux distro. I actually have a legitimate challenge for you for after you finish your 2-year OpenSUSE challenge, and I would even be willing to pay to become a channel sponsor or supporter for the duration of the time just to see you do it. Here is the challenge: I challenge you to daily drive the vanilla version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), as your main desktop OS for 1 full year. I don’t mean Fedora or any of the RHEL-based distros like AlmaLinux or Rocky Linux, but the actual RHEL itself. The reason is because I don’t believe that I have seen anyone run and review Red Hat as a desktop Linux OS, and I would be really curious to hear someone’s experience about what it would be like using it as a daily production desktop. I hope you would be willing to consider.

[@dheudyebtydrny]

I had the same curiosity about SLED. Hardly any information out there that I could find!

[@diotitus]

@@dheudyebtydrny Yea that would be an interesting take as well. I hope Matt sees my comment and considers the RHEL challenge. I think it would be really cool to see once his time in OpenSUSE is up.

[@masterofdizzzaster]

I wonder why no one is running this paid version of free and open software, meant for business, with literal "enterprise" in its name, with literal free equivalent. Are you willing to pay Matt on top of the subscription fee?

[@diotitus]

@@masterofdizzzaster They have a free personal license that you can use. It's technically for "developers", but anyone can create an account and get a free license for personal use. You just don't get the support obviously.

[@knm080xg12r6j991jhgt]

There is no Red Hat. There is only IBM.

[@tutacat]

You can fix your missing systemd dependenciesz or disable the timers/timeouts.

[@stopspyingonme9210]

I have ADHD and only use gnome for a year straight now. Also you're 9 days into year 2. I think you've convinced me though I'm looking for something stable to replace my arch install with

[@hariharan_vm]

Matt please choose an immutable distro for your next review. Consider these - Vanilla OS, openSUSE Aeon/Kalpa, Blend OS, Fedora Atomic with Universal Blue (review again?).

[@juhatalimaki6664]

Thanks, long term reviews give so much more relevant information than the usual short term ones. Unfortunately I am one of the ones that had problems installing tumbleweed. I do think it has something to do with the 6.x.x kernel since it gave problems in arch (Garuda and Catchyos) too (KDE wouldnt load and computer freeze when a second monitor was connected to AMD GPU) But I sure will try Tumbleweed later.

[@softwelveone]

great content man! thru out the years I've used Ubuntu for about as long as you've used OpenSuse, I've also used Linux Mint (for about 2 years) at that time I had my desk set up with Linux Mint on one computer and macOS on the other... I had a webserver (for a non-profit website) on an old MacBook... so I essentially had 3 computers on that desk... I wish I would have known about network segmentation during that time but luckily I never had any trouble (malware or anything) that's why I love linux!!

[@ottolehikoinen6193]

OpenSuse had a good rep at least in Finland in early days being one of the easiest to install. I believe the technical university here recommended it to people for good experience to start learning lower level programming. My first fully working linux install was OpenSuse (~20 y ago?) , but I did not use it for some local network reason (phone company would have charged extra for every os, can't recall?)

[@UnbreakableMJ0]

Few thoughts FWIW: ● Love Tumbleweed! ❤ ● Garuda too does BTRFS right, with snapshot rollbacks out of the box and such, and it's Arch btw! ● Had many problems with Immutable SuSE (now called Aeon) that prevented me from using it. ● Bazzite is awesome! Even for daily driver. But only if you're into their whole software installation philosophy. If you have the uncontrollable urge to customize the core OS, then Immutable OSes are not the way to go IMO.

[@robertnicora7566]

I'm sure you will love Endeavour Os

[@pw1187]

Wonder what it's gonna be called since Suse told them that they have to get a new logo and rename it

[@im_fred3956]

@The Linux Cast when do you think OpenSuse Tumble will change to be like NixOs? I really like how NixOS works but I prefer the lizard of OpenSuse.

[@TheLinuxCast]

If you mean will the do immutable? Then they already have, MicroOS is that. If you mean configured with a config file like Nix, the answer is never.

[@im_fred3956]

@@TheLinuxCast immutable is really really nice and also the way to configure your whole system with just one file. I dont have to edit files all over the place, also with NiXOS I can rollback to any time. That sucks that OpenSuse wont improve

[@thrickles]

Tumbleweed was fantastic, but the Packer repo issues is why I hopped to Bazzite

[@oscs4556]

Kalpa is the OpenSuse micro os plasma - one of my daily drivers. Aurora-dx is the best universal blue for me - plasma version of bluefin.

[@SpaceEndeavour]

Funny you mention Jorge Castro, my mom got a new laptop and to make a long story short, I put Bluefin on it, and it works very well for her

[@tinylith1603]

Don't think it will help you, but yandex has packman mirror as well (located in Moscow I believe)

[@CrescentRollCarl]

Been using Linux since the late 90s but still haven't tried OpenSUSE. I might have to rectify this situation soon. Seems like I might like it.

[@k.r.3821]

Dear Matt, I'd like to try openSUSE but none of the DEs is appealing to me. Is it possible to install Cinnamon? Thanks.

[@BobLoblaw_]

It is definitely possible and it's quite trivial to do so. You can choose from several DEs when installing Tumbleweed, Cinnamon included.

[@pocketglove]

I really wanted to try OpenSUSE cause i saw good things about YAST and how stable it was while being rolling, so i was intrigued. I installed it with KDE, but man, was it bloated. It even had some random games installed. I like the idea of it, but i've never reinstalled so fast. glad its working for you tho

[@Bruces-Eclectic-World]

Doing a great job sticking with this. I was a daughter but I see you making it now... Lol I'm still on arch and have been for over a year with a few hiccups but it has been really stable and I have stopped tinkering with it too... Lol So congrats Matt! LLAP 🖖

[@melissadefregt5547]

I used to use OSTW as my daily for years, its decent, but its more old school. I've since switched to NIXOS and its incredible, what they have done for the linux desktop is really neat. Its stable, up to date, and best of all immutable. I highly recommend you switch, don't bother with flakes though if you have only one pc and you're the sole user, not worth the trouble.

[@thingsiplay]

Fun fact: The first distro I ever installed was SUSE Linux 9.2 early 2000s and still have the CDs and DVDs. The package contains the installation in 2 DVDs AND multiple CDs, so you can choose which one to use, depending on your hardware. I played with the idea of looking into current openSUSE, but EndeavourOS is such a great experience that I don't need nor want to switch. For the zypper packman repo, would it make sense to disable it and update system without it. Only enable packman repo from time to time, in example once a week or month to update those packages as well. Would this be a problem in openSUSE? I'm personally in Germany, so this wouldn't be an issue for me at all. Just asking for you.

[@sebastianbauer4768]

No, don’t do that. Think of the packman repo as an overlay over the normal opensuse repos, it contains new packages as well as different versions of packages that are present in opensuse repos, for example due to codecs. If you’d disable it for an update there is a high probability for horrible breakage since a update to an opensuse package might depend on a updated package currently provided by packman, since that is unavailable it would break the update but offer the option of vendor switching to the updated opensuse package instead, so far so good. Now imagine though that another package that didn’t get an update was from packman and depended on the packman version of the package you just vendor switched to the opensuse package, let’s say mesa … and that’s really a simplified example, it can get much much more horrible than that.

[@vaisakh_km]

i prob switch to opensuse, currently i am in nixos, but i can still use nix even after switching to any system and main thing i wanted was rollbacks (not that i use, but it gives me a piece of mind.. )

[@Eevee8858]

Is it good for devs (need latest packages asap) or should i stick to arch based distros

[@UnhaltedGB]

As someone who is in the process of swapping over to Linux from Windows, is openSUSE going to be a good OS move onto? I have been running Fedora / Linux Mint on my laptop and as a dual-boot.

[@TheLinuxCast]

It's a crapshoot, really. openSUSE is really good, and it's not *hard* persay, but it does require some knowledge to maintain. Similar to Arch, it's rolling release, so things can break as you go along and do updates, and that requires some knowhow to manage. So, if you're adventurous, and you're not upset at needing to occasionally learn how to do more complex things, then yes, it's fine. But personally, I'd say stick to an Ubuntu/Debian based distro or something based on Fedora. Learn there, then once you get your sea legs, you can try out openSUSE. Note: that my assumption was that you wanted to try openSUSE Tumbleweed. openSUSE does have Leap, which is more "stable" so that might be an option.

[@igeljaeger]

I had after a few updates problems with audio crackling and a weird stutter on KDE every minute. Went back to a stable release distro. This was the last chance I gave to rolling releases and I'm just tired of distro hopping and too lazy to use snapshots when things go wrong. They should not go wrong.

[@vaisakh_km]

Wait that was 1 year ago? i remember it like yesterday

[@_Originator]

Suse-stuff is very EU-based and Germany has a few benefits highly appreciated, especially in privacy etc.. The Chinese mirrors probably exist for the same reason that there is Windows Government Edition for China and that's because they do not allow their internal governmentally used systems to use any software that their government didn't check - they do not like third parties spying. And thus as stuff based around Suse is advertised to governments and their needs, they need to fulfill China's special needs to be a viable option. This is my guess in the sense that it applies to openSUSE. It's seen elsewhere quite often...

[@sirph0enix417]

I am surprised that you are having such problems with boot time, because my system boots very fast and much faster than many other distributions. I had much worse problems with Fedora, especially when I wanted to shut down my PC, it could take about 2 minutes.

[@linuxramblingproductions8554]

The rock solid thing was surprising since when i switched neovim was broken and missing dependencies and i had some other issues as well. Maybe its my hardware or something but i had a lot of issues with software on it

[@Mwrp86]

People can have rock solid experience with Arch. But in the end Rolling release Distros will be never be rock solid

[@linuxramblingproductions8554]

@@Mwrp86 i had a rock solid experience with arch way more stable then some others. Tumbleweed was just broken in a lot of ways for me

[@Berecutecu]

Why one should envy the immutable distros? Are they really the future?

[@sebastianbauer4768]

They are part of the future, it isn’t an either or situation.

[@ArchLars]

The only issue I think is for newer users confused of how to get packages, where to get codecs, somewhat lacking documentation...

[@ovidiuov4317]

That's easy. I think there are 2 problems for new users on OpenSuse: 1. Btrfs as default. 2. They have so many products so at first beginning you don't know what to choose. Is was harder for me to understand which product exists and why.

[@EasyGameEh]

stable rolling release, yast and opi make it unique and worthwhile even for a windows user.

[@derekr54]

I'm still being asked for a password every time I update a flatpak.

[@darkenblade986]

long term bazzite review ?

[@PaulMrPKcom]

Hi, Im testing the opensuse on modern very fast desktop. Ism giving up after sound problems and after restoring snapshot now kdexsetting does not start at all...problems I never had on same hardware with many pthercdistros. I use Garuda as my daily driver, but was curious about opensuse, what do you think compared ? Thanks.

[@rickcontreras4943]

Been using Susie for about 10 years there’s no other system that I’d rather use

[@zizlog_sound]

Nice review of your experience. Would habe loved to watch some b-roll every now and then while you speak.

[@elina.-.11]

installing video hardware acceleration on opensuse is hardest thing to do and i couldn't do that so i switch back to Arch i don't know why all other distro that support rpm package have this issue like fedora and there isn't any handy document to show way to fix that

[@renealbrechtsen9743]

With the issues you're having it sounds like you might need to do a reinstall ?

[@VektrumSimulacrum]

when I got it installed, it was great. When the 6.8 kernel dropped it got worse and worse every update after that until it was unusable. Couldn't get it to reinstall again on the same machine. Their download mirrors also go down intermittently off an on in 2-3 day runs. I just didn't have time to wait for that to sort itself out or find a work around.

[@davidcave5426]

I have several openSUSE machines and reboots, from the time of POST to login is usually about a minute or less.

[@TheLinuxCast]

My last one was a minute and eight seconds, but half of that was one service.

[@davidcave5426]

@@TheLinuxCast The ones that take about a minute are on hardware at least 10 years old. The newer ones the boot time (both have 40 TB RAIDs) is no more than 30 seconds.

[@TheLinuxCast]

@@davidcave5426 Yeah, I know that there's something wrong with my installation. It's not a huge deal, but I can only mention things as I experience them.

[@stopspyingonme9210]

Is there a distro for beer lovers? For distro Hoppers? Craft Computing you watch this channel?

[@linuxforpunks]

Rolling-release is starting to win out over regular-release. I suppose developers' instincts guide them better than the increasingly complicated committees in a distro. Debian and its downstream distros are where I get problems like how to uninstall some weird version of Python that no longer matches any of the packages in the repository. It's like they're blind to the irrational things regular-release makes people do, and the time spent fixing it.

[@Prophet6000]

I'm leaning towards Fedora these days.

[@andrewdupper973]

i’m a longtime debian user but just today i was looking at fedora and opensuse. i must say fedora has handled the rhel situation admirably. a real testament to the community over there. opensuse still looks very interesting to me. would have to see how helpful yast really is

[@Dragonopolis]

I've been using Nobara for year and half... It's fantastic. Glorius Eggroll puts a lot of effort into connecting the software with the subsystems in Linux (something nobody really does on any distro). It's the only fedora base system that will boot on "all" of my AMD computers even the old GCN 2 (got a old workstation from 2009 that has a old i7 920 with 16 GB 0f ram and a old Radeon RX400 on a bios boot asus board).... Nobara not only boots directly from the iso to the livecd on bios {a rare feat on old systems for Linux distros} it installs the correct AMDGPU drivers for GCN cards NOT the crappy Radeon drivers every other distro attempts to install or use on livecd..... Nividia also installs pretty decently (for Linux distro that is) Current KDE 6 works .... Vulkan 1.3 drivers work ...... OpenGL 4.6 works as well as EGL..... even OpenCL is recognized by OS (although I haven't verified if the old RX400 card can use it properly). Linux games are better on this old workstation better than Windows ever did ..... Software tweaks to popular software to take advantage of all the system tweaks.... thanks to Glorius eggrolls work.... If you going to go Fedora I strongly recommend Nobara. It's not perfect... No auto upgrade commands or even notifications .... you have to sort of keep aware of Fedora's current release cycle and Nobara's iso update to know when to upgrade from the command-line to the next release cycle using Nobara distro specific upgrade commands ( a little behind Fedora but only between 2-4 months). Nobara is a mix of different repositories from Fedora, Copr, and Nobara which some people don't like having multiple repositories (which can increase the risk for system instability) .... Haven't had repo issues with Nobara as of yet... The closest I've ever got to replicating this was on MX Linux Debian 11 with KDE built from OpenSUSE build Service (got to love the OpenSuse community developers who often build for other package managers that the build service provides) as well as packages from npm or Distrobox for newer software. MX Linux keeps up to date kernels and some software and / or drivers... is very much a Debian Testing Distro.... I also got NixOS to closely replicate Nobara but struggled with grub issues.... it works just doesn't save the grub boot files correctly when rebuilding weird mulitboot system bug .. too bad really like NixOS

[@TechnoMinded-qp5in]

I am leaning towards avoiding Windows 11 24H2 because it's nothing but plagued malware so far I found a few distros that are stable like Kubuntu that will feel like Windows 10 to stay on at this point anything is better than Windows Recall.

[@bhargavjitbhuyan9394]

​​​​@@TechnoMinded-qp5in my recommendation: don't try stock kde if you are a beginner. Stock kde plasma looks like windows but this is actually very bad ( it looking like windows makes you feel like it works like windows and it doesn't and you thing something is wrong with Linux or plasma. It is not at all plasma's fault. It is not supposed to be like windows). I generally customise kde plasma if I am using a distro using plasma. Try opensuse. It installed all drivers by default. It installed flatpaks by default and it just required the codecs and turning on guc/huc (Intel). Just install the windows fonts and your display profile ( if you have it)(it is generally not necessary). Codecs can be easily installed. sudo zypper install opi opi codecs ( If it asks that if you want to keep the repo, yes you do. Always type y (for yes).) Or And you could go to yast and enable the packman repo. Go to search and search yast Software repositories Then add Then select community repositories Then select Pacman repositories.

[@themroc8231]

I hate Dnf and their firewall.

[@grinmaul]

I have been hopping for years, i was feeling like opensuse was the one last week and promised to keep it for a good bit, i rebooted 2 days ago and got dropped to some boot failed prompt, tried to roll back and same prompt... was fun while it lasted i guess.

[@tutacat]

Alsoz hardware encoding just works in the OBS flatpak. You aren't controlled by people who care about licenses.

[@iankester-haney3315]

Does upgrading to every new release of a Distro still count? I always update tonthe latest Xubuntu Desktop and Ubuntu Server release. But ai have pretty much kept the same ones years now. Other distros just don't work as well or need more babysitting than the Ubuntu family.

[@SheKonfusion]

how did you know i tried installing it this week sus.......

[@ComradeRachel]

What do you think about the possible name and branding change that OpenSUSE may be doing.

[@TheLinuxCast]

As long as they don't choose Geeko, I'm fine. That name is dumb

[@byronbrimstone5163]

Apart from a brief stint with Fedora from ver. 28-33, I've been a debian (or debian derivative) only guy for 17-18 years now. This praising, however, tempts me now. Have to say.

[@chrisheater4118]

Personally a lot of things that I have traditionally gotten from the AUR are in the SUSE repositories.