Quick tip, especially if you're a power user or want to be sure you can get into your system in case of technical issues (especially important on a rolling system): Do NOT set your Grub to zero, set it to like 2, or maybe 1 second. I have mine set to 2 on all systems and that's not actually that long. The extra 2 seconds for the peace of mind is worth it for me, but of course, to each their own.

I've tried openSUSE tumbleweed a few weeks ago, and struggled to find a video like this. Keep up the good work and thanks for making this!

Great video, BTW the shorthand for `refresh` is `ref` and you don't need sudo for searches, it works the same.

Snapper list can be almost instant. You mentioned that after 250-odd days, the snapper list command was taking a long time on your machine. This is because of the "Used Space" column - the size of the snapshot is calculated every time `snapper list` is run. Turn off this calculation with `snapper list --disable-used-space`, or you can use --columns with most commands to specify exactly which columns to show.

Thanks for going over Snapper, loving OpenSUSE w KDE so much. Also the grub delay was spot on, had mine disabled early too. Those precious 8 seconds are mine again 😂

You've really gotten me interested in openSUSE. I'm not much of a distro hopper but I've been feeling the urge to switch (for reasons too boring to mention), and openSUSE is increasingly seeming like something I should consider. I'm getting a new laptop soon, and I think I will probably install openSUSE on it to start, and see how that goes. If it goes well I may switch on my workstation.

Want more Linux content? Follow me on Mastodon: fosstodon.org/@thelinuxcast 0:00 Intro 0:43 A Couple Disclaimers 1:38 Making Zypper Faster 4:54 Learning YaST 7:15 Create a Forum Account 8:10 Get the Codecs 11:12 Install Nvidia Drivers 12:31 Get Familiar With Zypper 16:10 Learn About BTRFS 20:02 Install Flatpak 20:48 Change Boot Delay 22:00 Finally Updating Your System 25:46 Wrapping Up

Great to see you making a lot of openSUSE content. SuSE Linux has been my first distro - think around 6.3 days - and I came back to openSUSE this year with a vengeance. TW is now installed on all of my machines...

Every time I've used OpenSuSE, if I have selected every repository in the installation process, the correct NVIDIA drivers are selected for install the first time I run Yast. It's quite an easy process. Anyway, nice video Matt

Great tips! I'm so glad that you help people to get familiar with openSUSE! Btw, great ricing!!!

The relevant distinction between zypper up (update) and dup (dist-upgrade) is how it defines what changes zypper will propose. Update will only propose updates which do not cause conflicts (needing to be resolved) or involve vendor changes. Think about simple, consistent vertical updates within each vendor group. Dist-upgrade is 'safeties off', anything which will allow all the latest version of every package in all enabled repos to be installed. Upgrades, downgrades, removing packages, breaking packages' dependencies, no holds barred. In most cases, there won't be a single way to solve this request, so you end up in conflict resolution, package by package.

You’re a legend Matt thank you for introducing me to new platforms of Linux!

Excellent stuff! Thanks Matt!

Great explanation thx. Suse TW is my daily driver like it because is rolling and stable too. I’m using Arch also but we know it needs sometimes a little bit intervention.

I've tried out OpenSuse Tumbleweed and what turned me off of it was Zypper, kinda wished I had seen a video of how to make Zypper faster lol. Anyways, this was very informative and entertaining, Matt! Keep up the good work.

Ref is short for refresh

due to a KDE Plasma issue I have installed openSUSE and NixOS -- your sharing of your knowledge of those two OS's is a welcome find. cheers

You don't need root privilege for "zypper se" or other zypper commands that don't make changes.

I'm a LMDE fan... not gonna use SUSE in the foreseeable future, but learning from you is mandatory.

Im using OpenSUSE Tw and im loving it. I use i3wm and decided to change the xds-su script so it uses kdesu instead of xterm when openning yast (and other apps alike).

Very surprised by your comments on how slow zypper is, maybe it sped up in the past few months but I’ve never noticed it being slow in the past so I’m not sure what that’s about. Like watching some other video you made your refresh took ages while everytime I do it, it flys through

I just installed and am running Tumbleweed.. latest version as of 8/24....you MIGHT want to tell folks that if they're installing the one that INCLUDES VLC -- it needs to be REMOVED and add one from a source that is NOT the included one... the INCLUDED VLC has the h.264 DISABLED so it will NOT play DVDs no matter how many codec installs you do... simple fix-- remove the pre-loaded VLC and install a flatpak..

Thanks for details. Borked TW after a year, switched to Leap, borked it, then to Slowroll, borked it. Used snapper to go back on Slowroll, system worked, and Online Account for Google worked. Then did update of around 300 packages, Online Google account, used in Dolphin, broken again. Aha, it works on my Fedora and Debian Testing. Going to try TW once more before giving up on SUSE.

What a useful video. Great Stuff.

... Following on from my previous comment: in conflict resolution, you have to make choices between mutually exclusive outcomes, eg between a red hot Plasma 6 build and a newer Mesa from Packman that is not yet in Tumbleweed. Bad choices here like 'break dependencies' can stop one package working or render ones system unable to show a display manager.

IOW. You like it so much exactly because it is not ready for prime time and it forces you to learn a lot.

Installing OpenSuse right now so i hope things go well X"D

23:30, like right now, at this very moment, im being asked by zypper to manually switch repos. I knew about that flag but it seemed a little bit sus to change repos system packages, now im gonna use the shit out of it

Great video. I like OpenSuse but updates are a pain. How often do you recommend updating Tumbleweed? Weekly is ok?

Can you make a video about installing and setup hyprland on opensuse. I have tried to install but I couldn't open yast app. your setup looks amazing .

Maybe add the command for Yast to use it with the dark theme you use because without it, it uses the light theme. I used Tumbleweed for 10 days, but on the tenth Packman codecs errors. I don't know how to fix that because I'm to thick to understand and apply the command to fix it with if not step by step explained. Tumbleweed was very quick though and to my surprise easy to install.

With all due respect, where is the Dynamic Kernel Module System(DKMS), GNU/Parallel and Neovim on OpenSUSE Leap's core repositories?

Opensuse is great! I think its my final distro on PC

3:04 I thought etc is pronounced either by the full form "et cetera" or as an abbreviation "eee tee cee"?

I looked at it earlier today after wathing you talk about it. Might install it later today or tomorrow morning...THANKS- and I'll use this too. I like what I see. What do YOU recommend-- Tumbleweed or LEAP? I'm thinking Tumbleweed. Can it be DUAL BOOTED? (although I may decide to do with just OS)

(it's SUSAH) I've been using Tumbleweed for 2 yrs now, but I didn't know that zypper tip! Thanks!

Only thing missing for me is google noto sans fonts (specifically cjk) - so you can see eastern characters (even if you don't understand them, the boxes are bugging me)

Nice video. I had tried opensuse tumblweed few weeks back and really liked it. But zypper was so slow in installing packages and updating system that I uninstalled it and switched back to fedora. If I can make zypper fast, I might try it again sometime.

You got the "Just know" thing too like Brodie, it is a thing that CTT say all the time, and now it is getting to be the way of the Linux YT Community. Matt, don't be this guy :D

opensuse was my first distro and I have started to use it again

First thing to do is go do that chore you were procrastinating. That is because their repos and mirrors ARE SO SLOW. So get an update and upgrade going, and go find something to do for a couple of hours. Their repos and mirrors are slow, and nothing I did to Zypper changed that.

Great tips! Thanks a lot!

I thank you for sharing your knowledge, thought, opinions; i am very interested in your materials in general openSUSE in particular. Here is my problem 1, your screen is very deem i do have minor site problem, 2 your material organized in very cluster way specially openSUSE if you may reconsider it to in there specific distro! If you may i just like that (completely optional). Good day!

Manjaro user here but after watching all the hoops you have to go through to get everything we have out of the box, still a Manjaro user 😂

Great video. Would love to see one where you set up a brand new machine and show the settings and programs you change/install. Opensuse is slowly getting a lot of attention that it deserves, especially from the Fedora community that want to switch.

same with Fedora sudo dnf upgrade --refresh

Great tips, wish you made this video 4 years ago :)

What's giving the cute SUSE logo in your terminal? Tried looking through your dots and didn't see anything.

I tried opensuse few months ago. The part that made me leave it is the lack of community and how packman repo is only hosted in three countries and how much should I trust this repo thats located only in Czech republic, china and germany.

II would not recommend the `--allow-vendor-change` flag. I've had problems before with the codecs, and compatibility with dependencies. For me, it's better to wait a little, and check the forums to see if a package has REALLY changed repos, and do it manually, if not, keep waiting until all the upgrade is in sync :)

11:13 As someone who's dual booting windows & linux, despite openSUSE working fine with secure boot enabled, Nvidia proprietary drivers do NOT work fine. Upon installing those drivers and then blacklisting the nouveau ones, my DE broke until I disabled secure boot.

Thanks!

On a scale from Ubuntu to Gentoo, how difficult is OpenSuse?

Hi 👋🏻 thanks for the video 📼.... I would like to see how to configure tumbleweed for gaming using steam with proton. Is there anything particular we need to set up before starting?

What window manager are you using? I'm not sure about yours, but in hyprland you can... Oh... Wait you probably don't mess with Wayland huh? I mean fair. Either way though, I just use the kde polkit and it works great. Not an option on your side? Or just felt like keeping it simple?

How to setup my desktop to look like yours?

Thanks so much!!!!

Do you recommend Opensuse MicroOS as alternative?

I think im gonna start watching your videos on 2x speed with cc on, no hate on your content, but as much as the info you give is great, I think your videos get kind of long most of the time

The first thing you should do is to install Nix package manager.

I figured you'd be a gentoo user by now with all of the torturing that went on in the early days of this channel haha. Always liked OpenSUSE and good to know you can speed up zypper.

How you rollback from Grub menu if you set it to 0?

One difference between openSUSE and many other distros is the existence of a /usr/etc directory. So if I want to customise which users can run which sudo commands (instead of adding the user-ids to the wheel group) I put a sudoers file into /usr/etc/sudoers.d instead of /etc/sudoers.d and if I want a system wide profile file to define a set of aliases for all users I put this into /usr/etc/profile.d instead of /etc/profile.d. I assume that the distro designers want /etc to be for the system standard definitions and /usr/etc for the user defined definitions but this cannot be fully consistent as some apps only look in /etc (for example to add some custom grub entries I still have to use the /etc/grub.d/40_custom file or add a new file in that directory).

Why not just use dnf for everything? Does zypper have any benefits compared to other package managers?

Ok, what are the differences for users with Opensuse Tumbleweed, and Leap, Gecko what distro would a user be suited for the type of workflow?

ugh, how long until we can get you on something else? n_n i'm getting bored of suse. [ i love it really. spent first 4 years, 2003-2007 on suse ] can we get you on something more challenging next time? some peculiar bsd-style linux trying make its own package manager and init from scratch... something like that... maybe... soon? :)

which window manager are you using?

btrfs broke my disk one time and trust me nothing you can do so pls take care if you want btrfs instead of ext4

Why not use dnf as an alternative to zypper?

This video explains to me why there is no mass transitioning to Linux :( I'm sorry but normal users don't want to deal with zypprr, yast, btrfs, getting the Codecs and whatever. No idea what you talk about and honestly not even interested. People want systems that just work. From the outside it looks like Linux requires you to learn too much nerdy stuff.

Sadly, Plasma 6 spoiled by perfect Tumbleweed-Hyprland-Plasma 5.27 world on my notebook PC. Although my desktop is doing fine with Tumbleweed-Hyprland-Plasma 6, my notebook PC is not allowing nuke and pave Tumbleweed. So, I installed Fedora-Hyprland-Budgie on the laptop and it is terrific. Fedora is pretty darn good too.

‼️‼️Thumbleweed, not Leap ‼️‼️ OpenSuse is about Zipper packages, and the write function (ie. used with ie. zfs)

I hate the new Logo, they should keep the old one!

enSUS

Here are Linux: Redhat and Debian....the rest is just belongings, clothing and yeehhee yaahhaa

Сузе показал очень низкий фпс в играх, и фризы в кде. Так что я задержался в ней менее суток.

When you make a video take into consideration that all the viewers are not expert like you. So make a video that is more user friendly because all the Linux distros are not

Why are you asking us to leave a thumbs up on the channel one minute into the video? Isn't that for us to decide whether we like it or not based on the content of the video? Call to action should be at the end.

Only 32 views? TLC fell off fr fr

Only read the title, and here is what you do... uninstall it and install Nix... :P

Stay away from Yast. Honestly it doesn't explain options enough to be worth it. A lot of the things it offers are just not needed. What you will use is easier done via commands which forces you to learn and understand what you're actually changing. YaSt is the definition of over rated bloatware. Honestly just stay away from OpenSuse tumbleweed. It could be a great distro. The problem is zypper is painfully slow. Painfully slow. Up there with DNF.

zypper ref

Thanks!