installed the timeshift-bin timeshift-autosnap gurb-btrfs packages in ArcoLinux, a backup copy is created automatically before each update. Always if something can be rolled back.
I remember back in the VERY early 2000's installing Linux for the first time : it was SuSE 6.2 (not even called "open SuSE" at this time, released in 1999). ISDN was top notch tech for home (imagine, giving phone calls at the freaking same time you connect to the Internet !!!), and I also remembering spending 3 evenings trying (and acheiving) to configure my modem by sending it character strings I reached for in the man pages... How proud I was ! I have to say, I really liked the experience at this time. As time went by, I left Linux and came back to it from time to time, and started to daily drive Linux since about 3 years now. I'm "the eternal noob" kind of guy, got not much time to learn, but damn, Garuda satisfies me. But Matt, you give me the desire to try Open SuSE again; maybe on a VM. Greetings from an 48 years old schmuck from Switzerland !
We used to have a group of students where we took turns in buying the SuSE updates on CD since we only had 56k modems and university computers only could write to floppy disks. 5.0 was the first one, and I still have a couple of installation CD sets somewhere up to 8.something.
I first installed SuSe 6 in 1998. I spent a weekend trying to get it to work on my PC, but never looked back and stopped using Windows ever since. Moved to Debian, then Ubuntu, now Arch EndevourOS.
I was a RedHat user at the end of the 90s but switched to SuSE some time around 2000 and yes, version 6 was my earliest version. I used SuSE on and off after that until V8 when I was out of work and tended to use RISC OS 4 on my Acorn RISC PCs. It was a few years later that I tried to use SuSE again on a rebuilt Dell but found that the version I had wouldn't load as it wouldn't see SATA drives so I grabbed a new version, 10.2, the first to feature the name openSUSE and found it worked pretty well. I've been using openSUSE ever since, including the machine that I am currently using to type this in which is openSUSE 15.5. The only time I moved from openSUSE was when I tried to use Linux MINT Sarah but that went bad on me, uninstalling most of my GUI when I tried to install a specific package so in the end I shifted back to openSUSE. I should mention that I tend to use KDE 3.5.10, a personal preference as I was never a fan of Plasma and KDE 4 was always a bit bloated and slow in some cases. The only other change that I've made is where I no longer use openSUSE as a server - I changed to a NAS a few months ago, namely TrueNAS. I think that the whole quibble about zypper is a bit of a nitpick though if you really want to make an issue of zypper I could make an issue of systemd which I've never liked.
Tumbleweed is my daily driver, most stable rolling distro I have ever used. One reason is they way they update it.. when a package gets an update they update most of if not all the related packages before it gets pushed out.. some rolling distros.. cough cough ARCH will release a package update without updating/rebuilding the related packages alot of times.. tends to cause issues tbh
Would you say it would be suitable as a small office server? I'm looking for a solid rolling release distro to recommend to clients, and Slackware ain't it.
@@eriksiers I would recommend it yes.. I mean considering its rolling release just they way they update the packages makes it super stable, I have never had it break after months of use, but as its a rolling release just make sure the snapshot feature is turned on make it easy to ever recover if a server setting were to break
Leap is OpenSuse's parallel product with phased rollout that follows Tumbleweed, and might be a better choice for clients. I use both and I would agree that each is rock-solid.
I'm in this struggle to choose my perfect distro, in the last few months I've tested PopOS, Nobara, Fedora, EndeavorOS, Garuda and OpenSUSE. And I confess that I tested SUSE after watching your videos, and I think the distro is wonderful and I finally found my distro Thanks for your videos. For me the Garuda and OpenSuse TW is the best Greetings from an 51years old from Brasil! :D
Hi Matt, thank you for all of your videos! It’s great to hear your perspective. I use openSUSE as well and have found it to be very stable. In case you were wondering, the camera issue you are having when you give your thumbs up in your video is not a focus issue, but an issue of exposure. The camera is most likely set to an automatic exposure function (or auto ISO) which determines how sensitive the sensor is. You can see in the video that when you raise your white hand, the blacks in your shirt get darker. This is because the camera is trying to maintain a consistent exposure value. To get rid of this, you would need to make sure the camera is set to manual, then you can determine the ISO, aperture, and depth of field you want without any values changing in the frame. Hope this helps. Glad you have your power back!
I switched from Mandrake to SUSE Linux Professional 9.1 around 2004 as my main desktop os. When they split off openSUSE, I switched to that and still use it and am happy with it too.
I've ran Linux Mint for over 3 years, updates and all wasn't too bad. I've used Open Suse but never took enough time to even customize my Conky but now this has got me stoked to try it again! Thanks man!
openSUSE TW is my daily driver and has been for a few years now. I've had all AMD systems and a mixed system (AMD/Nvidia) currently and it's been nothing but rock solid for me. I understand other people with other configurations have had issues and I fully respect that. openSUSE put a end to my chronic distro hopping. I still test other distros and even really like MX Linux and Solus but openSUSE is always my go to for reliability. If a idiot like myself can run it and game. stream etc. on it anyone can LOL.
Definitely one of the most underrated. Rolling with faster DE Updates than anyone else. One of the biggest Libraries. Rock stable with easy rollback. The only thing I don't like. Takes forever to set up a minimal install and keep it minimal. Second. The only Distro I used that won't print out of the box with my printer and it is not that easy to fix it
Canon Pixma MG 3053 I don't use it that often so I just boot up any Linix Distro from a Ventoy stick and print my stuff there. Did not set it up one Tumbleweed yet
@@Qyngali Your answer about Canon is somehow not showing anymore. I see part of it in my Notifications but can't read all of it. Yeah Canon is probably proprietary but it just works on every other Distro I used (mostly Ubuntu based). And the help I get from Tumbleweed is just resulting in an error.
It's rather good. I'm using it in the form of a 'gaming distro', RegataOS which appears to use components from Tumbleweed and Leap - this may not sound good but it is a project that has existed many years in Brazil and is said to have very competent developers. Very stable and totally painless installation and great performance of Mass Effect Andromeda. (I run it together with win 11 and the Devuan based Peppermint OS, separate partitions ofc)
You're a good ambassador! You have done more in your videos to convince me to take openSUSE seriously than anyone ever has. I am probably going to try it with my next machine.
i have tried various distros on my life, Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, Kurumin, Big Linux, Slackware, Alpine, OpenSuSe, Debian, CentOS, Oracle Linux and others. with OpenSuse i have instability with Tumbleweed, but, it's expected for a rolling release distro, after that i migrate to Leap 15.5 and now on Leap 15.6, very stable, a good compatibility with my Dell laptops, and i like the app instalation with flatpak as default. for stability i recomend the OpenSuSe Leap,
I'm a long term Debian user, since the 90s. I've tried OpenSuse Tumbleweed some years ago, without too much expectations, really. I was surprised! I've never used Debian ever since, not because Debian is bad, but because OpenSuse is truly amazing!
I compiled libre office suite, rust, kernel, perl, firefox and thunderbird here recently. Matt, that upgrade took less time than zypper. Now, it was 100+ packages, not 1k+ like you. But I'm shocked my update over this weekend was faster than yours. My internet is trash. I miss having fiber. 30ish mbps average download speed. You are right about OpenSuse being underrated/slept on. I remember getting the releases in Linux mags or in those thick Linux books my dad would buy.
Your download speed was faster maybe because of the distance between the servers and your location as he said. For me, The download speed seems faster. Perhaps because I'm not so far from Germany.
Gecko Linux is based on opensuse and even though their iso is more than 1 year old, all the packages still get updated without any issues after install. Try doing that on an arch based distro.
Hi, liked the video very much, I like openSUSE too. I think that the reason it's hard to get support on forums might be a question of being monolingual. There're many places to get forum support in other languages such as french, spanish and especially german. Watched all the way through. Again, great video.
OpenSUSE is the only Linux distro that I wouldn't even think twice about trusting my life to. I'm not even talking SLE, I'm talking OpenSUSE (Leap specifically), which thankfully shares the same bulletproof codebase as SLE. For nearly 3 decades, I've continually come back to SUSE after trying other distros. Noting else even comes close to SUSE for me.
OpenSUSE has been my daily driver for years, although I prefer the Leap releases. To me its the perfect mix between being up to date without being so bleeding edge as to risk stability. I also really like the flexibility of the installer. Proper MPEG4 codecs and Nvidia drivers are not available by default, but they make enabling the necessary repositories to get them super easy in Yast. All in all, I really like it.
Good hardware support in a distribution usually down to there being a partially rolling hardware stack AND updated ISOs. Usually this means a recent kernel and graphics stack (mainly mesa). However some other components that would be optimal to update on stable distributions like Ubuntu and Linux Mint would be hplip to support newer HP printers, sane for scanners (probably the least important component), and maybe audio. There can sometimes be graphics components that can be a problem related to wifi and/or cellular modems. The network manager most distros use broke things at certain points and there are some rare distributions for things like the Raspberry Pi that don't include a graphical applet/desktop environment with support for cellular modems. The other thing that isn't really the distributions fault is that of manufacturers and why I highly recommend avoiding AMD and NVIDIA if you want a good user experience. The propriety drivers get in the way of things working properly and distributions being able to PROPERLY support said hardware. It's not that some distributions don't have hacks to make said hardware work, but that's a poor solution to the manufacturers being crap at supporting or enabling support for their hardware.
I did try OpenSUSE Tumbleweed just because I don't like Arch. I had some great month of flawless working machine, then some update crashed down on me and I didn't even know where to start searching for error. Thats when I found out you need a root partition that is big enough. If you don't have that the snapper/btrfs snapshots is not available. I didn't want to mess around anymore so I just rebooted into my at that point very old Debian Sid install, booted just fine and updated without issues. So I will just stay on Debian Sid. Even though it's not recommended as a daily driver, it still works way better than both Arch and OpenSuSE tumbleweed for me.
As an openSUSE user since 2005 I can confirm I do not talk alot about it. Despite the title of my videos. But in forums, social media or when helping people with Linux stuff I do not advertise it. I respect their choice, try to help them as best as I can on the distro they're currently using but I do not try to convince them to switch. Apparently when somebody ask me directly what distribution I would recommend it's apparently openSUSE but I do not if not ask for it. Or if someone tries to convince me to switch I can get vocal about openSUSE and ultimately convince most ppl that there is no need to switch. Neither for me or them. 😅 Also it is a common phenomenon for openSUSE that we are very quiet about it and know ppl will stop by eventually and then like it. Just as you do . I believe the mindset of the avg. openSUSE user is that forcing or constantly trying to convince ppl will more likely turn them off. But if they join on their own they are more likely to stay.
Fedora has a policy to not ship any updates with breaking changes within a single release which for example caused Sway to be stuck on an older version in Fedora 37 or 36 iirc. Not sure if this could possibly be the reason for older i3 in repos because it seems i3 hardly changes but who knows
I've always wanted to try OpenSuSE but never got around to it. I've been using Linux as my main for like 10 years now. Started with Ubuntu then Debian, Fedora for like a few months then Manjaro for the past 2 years :D OS has always been on my list to try one day :D
Make sure you create snapshots when it matters and you should be fine. Also, the best KDE distro in my opinion. And on gigabit internet zypper is absolutely fine.
It's also worth mentioning that openSUSE is probably the best distro for running a private server or any kind "serious" use, now that CentOS is dead. openSUSE is based on SLES binaries so it's no surprise that it's super stable.
I'd say the thing about uninstalling the DE that comes by default with the distro you are running, well mainly be prepared for the next boot to be to a CLI login prompt until / unless another DE is installed. More specifically I guess it depends on whether the uninstall also removes your default greeter and/or login manager. You can explicitly mark those packages to remain installed if you want to keep the same greeter during a transition, unless itself depends on the DE. But to the point you were making, yes it's great that simple or automatic snapshot creation allows you to be bolder about trying out changes knowing your can roll right back to a working setup. And for those trying out new distributions in a virtual machine, it's a reminder that you can benefit from the VM Manager's snapshot-ing abilities regardless of whethe the guest OS provides them.
I tried it multiple times. I really wanted to like OpenSuSe. But everytime something else was broken or broke shortly after install. Although some of it were not Suses fault but KDEs. Nothing that wasn't fixable, but Linux Mint just gives me a smoother out of the Box experience and "just works". The last time was two years ago so it might be much better now, but I have stopped distro hopping since. That being said, I just love your theme.
Sounds like more of a KDE problem, and I've had similar experiences. I've used and wanted to like KDE several times on different distros, and it's great for a week or so, then it starts showing what a buggy mess it really is. I installed Tumbleweed initially with KDE, but switched to GNOME and have had zero issues. If you don't like GNOME, there's plenty of desktop options on openSUSE.
Yeah Arch does have stability issues once in a while. My way to mitigate this problem is to install snapper with grub-btrfs tools. If any bug arises, I can revert back to a previous backed up version straight from the grub menu.
Almost talks me into trying openSUSE again. A while back I tried it when I got a new laptop, but had some issues getting the audio to work. Being close to the start of the semester I decided to return to my trusty Ubuntu. The hardware in question happen to be a S76 and was not planning to use pop because it felt like a buntu flavor, but decided to give it a shot. I have to say that I did end up liking it tho.
I can't say as though I'm looking to ditch the Arch family of distros for it, but I keep hearing about OpenSuSE's stability. The one thing that people keep telling me is that it's stable and it's to the point where you'd almost think they were describing Debian. Considering the smaller user base, I don't know how true that is, but I can say I'm not surprised to hear about it here too.
I can myself confirm that OpenSUSE is awesome. My first Linux distro choices were Ubuntu, ZorinOS, Fedora, EndeavorOS then I went to OpenSUSE and I stick with it. I didn't went first to OpenSUSE because of what people where saying I never give it a try. And YAST is a great piece of admin software without the need to always use CLI.
I've heard about longer laptop battery life in openSUSE, and that they have own patches for the kernel, Firefox and maybe KDE. I'm on Arch now, he's great, but too raw and vanilla, so I'm looking for "more baked" alternatives.
I've been using Tumbleweed for a bit over a year (installed in May 2022) and that's by far the longest I've had any distro installed. Other than some issues at the outset getting my network connection set up (just needed to change DNS settings) it's been extremely stable. I've also switched desktops multiple times. Started on KDE > Cinnamon > GNOME > back to KDE > back to GNOME where I mostly live now, with i3 installed on the side. Once in awhile it seems to hang a little when opening an app especially on i3, but I'm guessing that's a side effect of leftover junk from all my desktop environment hopping. On that note, if anyone has suggestions for a good system cleaner that would be great, since Stacer isn't maintained anymore.
Don't be fooled, if you use it long enough you absolutely will have an update break the system. But it's easy to roll it back to the former state. Been using Tumbleweed for about 4 maybe five years now. Yep, it blows up sometimes, but easy to fix and I give it a 9.9 out of 10. I love it.
I wouldn't say Tumbleweed the rolling distro) is anywhere near as stable as Debian, lol. Leap (the stable branch) probably compares reasonably well in some sense. IME it rarely breaks, if at all. But I don't know how long they do LTS tho, which I think is the biggest deal about Debian.
yep, TW cured my distro hopping a couple years ago. ran it for a year straight without any major problems. ended up hopping off it for Nobara and am on Debian right now but it'll always be my trusty fallback. when i circle back around to it one day i'll go with Leap instead of TW though. i'm pretty over rolling distros. when Deb12 starts getting a little long in the tooth i'll probably try out an immutable distro. Vanilla looks pretty cool. then after that inevitably fails go back to opensuse. ...or maybe gentoo lol
Lol what? Tumbleweed cured your distro hopping but then you hopped to Nobara, then you hopped to Debian, and if you ever come back to openSuse it will be Leap, not tumbleweed.. did I understand that right? Lol
I'm all for giving it a try, thanks for the suggestion! I always spin up new distros on Virtualbox for a test run, and if I really like it, I'll install it onto my main computer.
At the end there you know your own setup better than us but on the 1080p playback it looks like it's merely exposure adjusting to bright reflection of your light reflecting from your thumb looming large in the frame and darkening the image rather than the camera changing the focus. There's another reflection in the monitor on the back wall that it is also compensating for depending whether you block it in the foreground.
I remember trying out SuSE 10, many years ago. I used it for years... In Germany the gov uses SuSE, so it's stable. Thanks for making this vid and giving it some attention.
I always thought of OpenSuSE as a really polished KDE (back when it was SuSE especially). I always saw it as a home office/small business desktop distro and I remember YAST being great.
Hi, thanks for reviewing openSUSE! :-) I can relate to your points. Regarding 14:10 - you can definitely edit the mirrors used by editing traditional text files, it is not required to do so using special utilities. Simply head to `/etc/zypp/repos.d/` and edit the `baseurl` lines in the respective .repo files. You can confirm your changes by inspecting `zypper lr -d`. Edit: one very minor nitpick, since some releases already it's spelled "openSUSE" - the company brand "SuSE" was changed to "SUSE" as it no longer implies the original German acronym.
For real though, I like your videos. I like the fact you actually talk about your true, or at least seams to be true, opinion. I try to find honest opinions on TH-cam all the time, but it leaves me watching at least 5+ videos before I find somebody that's not saying something only because they make money doing so.
SUSE is great. its the distro that introduced me to Linux (like 20 years ago) at my internship and I didnt feel like it was hard to get into it. it has a special place in my heart and GEEKO to this day lives rent free in my head (I love that logo).
Never notice any lag or slow updates with zypper. But I live not far from many repos comparatively (Norway) So I would suspect the US servers for your experience.
They had for a while back in the day a really nice online configurator that allowed you to customize the components you wanted in the base setup and packaged up an iso for you to burn to cd\\dvd or USB (VM) it was great for virtualbox and vagrant at the time as you could make very lean iso's and have the profiles for these builds online to build new ones from that seem to be the progenitor for what docker packages and such came from, but I ain't one to gossip... .
I've been diving into openSUSE Tumbleweed and it truly shines when paired with my AMD GPU. But when it's NVIDIA's turn, the journey becomes notably rocky. Here's to hoping for enhanced compatibility down the road. (NVIDIA, I'm looking at you!)
From what I can tell (new Linux user here who actually opted to try out openSUSE first), it's developed in Germany and certain things about the system appear to be pretty "archaic" or more obtuse than on other distros. In particular stuff like video codecs or the YaST manager not supporting Flatpak even though it's integrated in SUSE. I did like your more positive insight on it than other people I watched so far. Just trying to see what system I am dealing with
The thing that i like about openSUSE is that the users don't brag about their operating system like it can do anything, and it actually does what its supposed to do. Meanwhile arch users will brag and brag and brag but they pass of system-breaking updates as fine.
I come from Germany. It's true that we are introverted and quick to nag. My experiences in forums at openSUSE were also interesting at that time. That's why I'm even in the English area to search when I have problems. We also have good people so it is not, only we Germans are sometimes a bit distant at the beginning, which often changes very quickly and then you have to do with very good people. OpenSUSE is also not often represented in my environment. There are just the established distros and the time when SUSE was cool is over. That was before Ubuntu. I use Linux with pause around the year 2000. One of my first distros was Mandrake and SUSE 9.1 I bought in the box. At the kiosk even once a Redhat Linux. I think fedora there was not yet, I can also be wrong. My English is not the best, I have made an effort to understand it.
For me no distro work with hibernation except Debian 12. The problem is that after copel of day 2-3 days when computer woke up the graphics looks like 1024 color instead of 16.5 miljon and the only fix is hard reset of computer. The computer is pure AMD with AMD 3950x and 6900 graphics. All of the big 20 distro has this problem except Debian 12 works perfect
@petersz2379 Have you compiled a custom kernel? I used to find that would fix my hardware weirdness, before I upgraded my computer to one that the standard Slackware kernel likes.
OpenSuSE Discord has been excellent to me and my silly little setup [server build with just a Wayland WM]. I have been distro hopping since the 90s and I haven't felt a click like this since #!. I have three systems that I daily and I still try other distros on my laptops, but I keep coming back to Tumbleweed.
Hello Mathew, is it possible to share you configuration for your UI or a video on how you set it up would be awesome, thank you and love how informative this is 👏
Tried it once a year ago and it was the most broken experience I ever had on linux, didn't check on it again since then, I do envy those who can run it normally
Totally agree, OpenSUSE is quite underrated and doesn't get enough visibility, though I've seen more big Linux TH-camrs covering it, which is awesome. I personally didn't have a super great experience but I did a bit of an unusual install to get Cinnamon desktop on it which is not an option in the installer. I chose Minimal desktop (ICEwm I believe) and then retrofitted Cinnamon over top of that in post. So I can't really blame OpenSUSE for my weird install choices. That said I still think it's a great distro if you like rolling releases but don't want the extra work that Arch needs to manage and set up. Yast is really cool and it is not talked about nearly enough. It's probably the most detailed graphical configurator I've ever seen on Linux. It definitely could be more visually appealing and modern but functionally, I absolutely love it. Also I could be wrong but isn't SUSE basically the pioneer of btrfs and snapper? Either way it seemed very tightly integrated and though I never had to use it, it seemed to do its job.
This is what I love about Arch, it's so snappy, it sets a new standard, plus the package range, omg. I didn't think Linux was that fast until you try Arch. I still think Arch and Debian are overall the best two options, period. I have tried so many distro's, all main variants, so far I always come back to something Debian based, Linux Mint for many years, being the unusual one being Ubuntu based, but still ultimately Debian. Going to retire my Mint/Ubuntu distro and migrate to LMDE. Giving Arch a try finally after all these years, let's see how it goes. Going to see if it can last a year...🤔 (currently using Arch right now watching this, 😉)
22:00 I think it's not that Americans don't want to use it, it's more like they have no reason to try it. As you said, it's a small distro and people usually go for the popular distros. In Europe the situation is a bit different. Suse is based in Europe and therefore popular with European companies and government institutions. So a lot of people in the IT sector are exposed to it at work and then decide to use it at home.
I've been using Opensuse since it was a German company called SuSE. There are two desktops and server running it 24/7 in my house right now. I have never, ever had an update take 2-1/2 hours. I can take a bare metal brand new machine and install Opensuse, and all subsequent updates, in less time than that these days. I've done it, just recently. So, to me, based on over 20 years of experience running it, you having an update take that long is an anomaly. Even on a dialup connection, updates never took that long. Install, maybe, but not an update.
i have several computers on several different desks and all of em have a different distro so i stay up to date on hows this or that distro nowadays. those are mainly, mint, fedora, manjaro and thumbleweed or ubuntu sometimes. One computer now has zorin.
Doind SuSE Linux since 1998. It has had its ups and downs. When SuSE was aquired by Novell, it became nearly unusable, but OpenSuSE isn´t bad. For desktops I still prefer Zorin, but I have an old MacBook on OpenSuSE and it's nice enough.
Welcome to the Green Side! Of course people is a bit abrupt, it's a German distro after all ;) You forgot to mention the best part: Suse's music videos, haha
If I remember right, my issue with OpenSuSE was updates. This was several years ago and updates would come in as individual updates as well as packages. The individual ones would not install if there were prereq's. You had to figure out which in the list was the package and then get it to install. Eventually, I just gave up on it. I had a list of updates that I could not get to install and I switched to another. Has this been corrected in newer iterations of the distro?
I gotta say I'm blown away by opensuse. I'm excited that they're moving towards a slow rolling release zypper almost made me hop away, but once I turned off the setting that has it refresh on every se or in, it just edged into an acceptable speed for me.
My only problem with it is that my computer has big problem starting the newer kernel with grub and every tuto did nothing I would also like to point out. That part of the problem (from what I found) is that they, like many other distros, didn't respect grub spec on the emplacement of their grub config in uefi. The spec demand to put them in a folder named Linux, not one of the name of the distro. And grub don't want to update their config generator, so support custom emplacement.
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installed the timeshift-bin timeshift-autosnap gurb-btrfs packages in ArcoLinux, a backup copy is created automatically before each update. Always if something can be rolled back.
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I remember back in the VERY early 2000's installing Linux for the first time : it was SuSE 6.2 (not even called "open SuSE" at this time, released in 1999). ISDN was top notch tech for home (imagine, giving phone calls at the freaking same time you connect to the Internet !!!), and I also remembering spending 3 evenings trying (and acheiving) to configure my modem by sending it character strings I reached for in the man pages... How proud I was ! I have to say, I really liked the experience at this time. As time went by, I left Linux and came back to it from time to time, and started to daily drive Linux since about 3 years now. I'm "the eternal noob" kind of guy, got not much time to learn, but damn, Garuda satisfies me. But Matt, you give me the desire to try Open SuSE again; maybe on a VM.
Greetings from an 48 years old schmuck from Switzerland !
cool story bro
We used to have a group of students where we took turns in buying the SuSE updates on CD since we only had 56k modems and university computers only could write to floppy disks. 5.0 was the first one, and I still have a couple of installation CD sets somewhere up to 8.something.
I first installed SuSe 6 in 1998. I spent a weekend trying to get it to work on my PC, but never looked back and stopped using Windows ever since. Moved to Debian, then Ubuntu, now Arch EndevourOS.
I was a RedHat user at the end of the 90s but switched to SuSE some time around 2000 and yes, version 6 was my earliest version. I used SuSE on and off after that until V8 when I was out of work and tended to use RISC OS 4 on my Acorn RISC PCs. It was a few years later that I tried to use SuSE again on a rebuilt Dell but found that the version I had wouldn't load as it wouldn't see SATA drives so I grabbed a new version, 10.2, the first to feature the name openSUSE and found it worked pretty well. I've been using openSUSE ever since, including the machine that I am currently using to type this in which is openSUSE 15.5.
The only time I moved from openSUSE was when I tried to use Linux MINT Sarah but that went bad on me, uninstalling most of my GUI when I tried to install a specific package so in the end I shifted back to openSUSE. I should mention that I tend to use KDE 3.5.10, a personal preference as I was never a fan of Plasma and KDE 4 was always a bit bloated and slow in some cases. The only other change that I've made is where I no longer use openSUSE as a server - I changed to a NAS a few months ago, namely TrueNAS. I think that the whole quibble about zypper is a bit of a nitpick though if you really want to make an issue of zypper I could make an issue of systemd which I've never liked.
7.x for me. Came on half a dozen CDs. What a time.
Tumbleweed is my daily driver, most stable rolling distro I have ever used. One reason is they way they update it.. when a package gets an update they update most of if not all the related packages before it gets pushed out.. some rolling distros.. cough cough ARCH will release a package update without updating/rebuilding the related packages alot of times.. tends to cause issues tbh
Would you say it would be suitable as a small office server? I'm looking for a solid rolling release distro to recommend to clients, and Slackware ain't it.
@@eriksiers I would recommend it yes.. I mean considering its rolling release just they way they update the packages makes it super stable, I have never had it break after months of use, but as its a rolling release just make sure the snapshot feature is turned on make it easy to ever recover if a server setting were to break
Rolling releases for servers does not sound good for your clients.
@@SergiuNiculas yeah, now that I've said it in public, it does sound kinda dumb...
Leap is OpenSuse's parallel product with phased rollout that follows Tumbleweed, and might be a better choice for clients. I use both and I would agree that each is rock-solid.
Running openSUSE Tumbleweed on work laptop. 4 years+ on the same install and still rolling ! Tumbleweed is the crown jewel of rolling distros.
I'm in this struggle to choose my perfect distro, in the last few months I've tested PopOS, Nobara, Fedora, EndeavorOS, Garuda and OpenSUSE. And I confess that I tested SUSE after watching your videos, and I think the distro is wonderful and I finally found my distro Thanks for your videos.
For me the Garuda and OpenSuse TW is the best
Greetings from an 51years old from Brasil! :D
Sounds good 👍
If you ever have a reason to try another, I'd recommend MX Linux 23 or Debian 12 (good old MATE Desktop being my preference)....
@@jezzamobile I tried these 2 and I didn't like it
@@DrNutrijorge Fair enough. It's good to find a distro that works well for you 👍
Hi Matt, thank you for all of your videos! It’s great to hear your perspective. I use openSUSE as well and have found it to be very stable.
In case you were wondering, the camera issue you are having when you give your thumbs up in your video is not a focus issue, but an issue of exposure. The camera is most likely set to an automatic exposure function (or auto ISO) which determines how sensitive the sensor is. You can see in the video that when you raise your white hand, the blacks in your shirt get darker. This is because the camera is trying to maintain a consistent exposure value. To get rid of this, you would need to make sure the camera is set to manual, then you can determine the ISO, aperture, and depth of field you want without any values changing in the frame. Hope this helps. Glad you have your power back!
+1 for openSUSE being underrated and deserving of more credit than it gets. They need more fanboys like us :)
I switched from Mandrake to SUSE Linux Professional 9.1 around 2004 as my main desktop os. When they split off openSUSE, I switched to that and still use it and am happy with it too.
I've ran Linux Mint for over 3 years, updates and all wasn't too bad. I've used Open Suse but never took enough time to even customize my Conky but now this has got me stoked to try it again! Thanks man!
openSUSE TW is my daily driver and has been for a few years now. I've had all AMD systems and a mixed system (AMD/Nvidia) currently and it's been nothing but rock solid for me. I understand other people with other configurations have had issues and I fully respect that. openSUSE put a end to my chronic distro hopping. I still test other distros and even really like MX Linux and Solus but openSUSE is always my go to for reliability. If a idiot like myself can run it and game. stream etc. on it anyone can LOL.
Long and rambly video is fine with me. Gives me more info tidbits and details which I like. Cheers! 😊
Definitely one of the most underrated.
Rolling with faster DE Updates than anyone else.
One of the biggest Libraries.
Rock stable with easy rollback.
The only thing I don't like.
Takes forever to set up a minimal install and keep it minimal.
Second. The only Distro I used that won't print out of the box with my printer and it is not that easy to fix it
Which printer?
Canon Pixma MG 3053
I don't use it that often so I just boot up any Linix Distro from a Ventoy stick and print my stuff there. Did not set it up one Tumbleweed yet
@@Qyngali Your answer about Canon is somehow not showing anymore. I see part of it in my Notifications but can't read all of it.
Yeah Canon is probably proprietary but it just works on every other Distro I used (mostly Ubuntu based). And the help I get from Tumbleweed is just resulting in an error.
@@xperience-evolution error about missing dependencies or something else?
@@xperience-evolution strange, I don't see my own answer at all lol.
I do like OpenSUSE. I used it for a year; Leap; KDE. Great KDE setup and using the Zypper package manager is not hard at all.
I’m very happy to watch you because you’re very informative. Thank you for doing everything you do on Lennox.
OpenSUSE is a true Powerhouse and I wish it got more recogbition ❤
It's rather good. I'm using it in the form of a 'gaming distro', RegataOS which appears to use components from Tumbleweed and Leap - this may not sound good but it is a project that has existed many years in Brazil and is said to have very competent developers. Very stable and totally painless installation and great performance of Mass Effect Andromeda. (I run it together with win 11 and the Devuan based Peppermint OS, separate partitions ofc)
You're a good ambassador! You have done more in your videos to convince me to take openSUSE seriously than anyone ever has. I am probably going to try it with my next machine.
I still have my SUSE Version 8.1 box with CDs and Manuals from 1998. I just started using it again (Version 15.6) ... it is fantastic!
Happy S.u.S.E. user here for the last 25 or so years.
i have tried various distros on my life, Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, Kurumin, Big Linux, Slackware, Alpine, OpenSuSe, Debian, CentOS, Oracle Linux and others.
with OpenSuse i have instability with Tumbleweed, but, it's expected for a rolling release distro, after that i migrate to Leap 15.5 and now on Leap 15.6, very stable, a good compatibility with my Dell laptops, and i like the app instalation with flatpak as default. for stability i recomend the OpenSuSe Leap,
I'm a long term Debian user, since the 90s.
I've tried OpenSuse Tumbleweed some years ago, without too much expectations, really. I was surprised!
I've never used Debian ever since, not because Debian is bad, but because OpenSuse is truly amazing!
I compiled libre office suite, rust, kernel, perl, firefox and thunderbird here recently. Matt, that upgrade took less time than zypper. Now, it was 100+ packages, not 1k+ like you. But I'm shocked my update over this weekend was faster than yours. My internet is trash. I miss having fiber. 30ish mbps average download speed.
You are right about OpenSuse being underrated/slept on. I remember getting the releases in Linux mags or in those thick Linux books my dad would buy.
Your download speed was faster maybe because of the distance between the servers and your location as he said. For me, The download speed seems faster. Perhaps because I'm not so far from Germany.
Gecko Linux is based on opensuse and even though their iso is more than 1 year old, all the packages still get updated without any issues after install. Try doing that on an arch based distro.
downloaded ArcoLinux 2022 release for experiment and it upgraded to today without issue!
Gecko is superb! All that is good with openSuSE but with potential ‘paper cuts’ removed.
Hi, liked the video very much, I like openSUSE too.
I think that the reason it's hard to get support on forums might be a question of being monolingual. There're many places to get forum support in other languages such as french, spanish and especially german.
Watched all the way through. Again, great video.
OpenSUSE is the only Linux distro that I wouldn't even think twice about trusting my life to. I'm not even talking SLE, I'm talking OpenSUSE (Leap specifically), which thankfully shares the same bulletproof codebase as SLE. For nearly 3 decades, I've continually come back to SUSE after trying other distros. Noting else even comes close to SUSE for me.
Leap with XFCE is nice.
OpenSUSE has been my daily driver for years, although I prefer the Leap releases. To me its the perfect mix between being up to date without being so bleeding edge as to risk stability. I also really like the flexibility of the installer. Proper MPEG4 codecs and Nvidia drivers are not available by default, but they make enabling the necessary repositories to get them super easy in Yast. All in all, I really like it.
How do you get them through yast? I'm using opi codecs right now
I remember trying it years ago and impressed with how rock stable it was.
It's German, what do you expect. Not my system though as I like the bleeding edge.
Good hardware support in a distribution usually down to there being a partially rolling hardware stack AND updated ISOs. Usually this means a recent kernel and graphics stack (mainly mesa). However some other components that would be optimal to update on stable distributions like Ubuntu and Linux Mint would be hplip to support newer HP printers, sane for scanners (probably the least important component), and maybe audio. There can sometimes be graphics components that can be a problem related to wifi and/or cellular modems. The network manager most distros use broke things at certain points and there are some rare distributions for things like the Raspberry Pi that don't include a graphical applet/desktop environment with support for cellular modems. The other thing that isn't really the distributions fault is that of manufacturers and why I highly recommend avoiding AMD and NVIDIA if you want a good user experience. The propriety drivers get in the way of things working properly and distributions being able to PROPERLY support said hardware. It's not that some distributions don't have hacks to make said hardware work, but that's a poor solution to the manufacturers being crap at supporting or enabling support for their hardware.
I did try OpenSUSE Tumbleweed just because I don't like Arch. I had some great month of flawless working machine, then some update crashed down on me and I didn't even know where to start searching for error. Thats when I found out you need a root partition that is big enough. If you don't have that the snapper/btrfs snapshots is not available. I didn't want to mess around anymore so I just rebooted into my at that point very old Debian Sid install, booted just fine and updated without issues. So I will just stay on Debian Sid. Even though it's not recommended as a daily driver, it still works way better than both Arch and OpenSuSE tumbleweed for me.
Thanks for the input I just switched to open suse leap
As an openSUSE user since 2005 I can confirm I do not talk alot about it. Despite the title of my videos. But in forums, social media or when helping people with Linux stuff I do not advertise it.
I respect their choice, try to help them as best as I can on the distro they're currently using but I do not try to convince them to switch.
Apparently when somebody ask me directly what distribution I would recommend it's apparently openSUSE but I do not if not ask for it.
Or if someone tries to convince me to switch I can get vocal about openSUSE and ultimately convince most ppl that there is no need to switch. Neither for me or them. 😅
Also it is a common phenomenon for openSUSE that we are very quiet about it and know ppl will stop by eventually and then like it. Just as you do .
I believe the mindset of the avg. openSUSE user is that forcing or constantly trying to convince ppl will more likely turn them off. But if they join on their own they are more likely to stay.
I started with Linux Mint, kept that on my laptops. On desktop I now use openSUSE 😄
@@TroubledTrooper I've been using Arch for almost 20 years now and KDE as my desktop since the end of KDE 3, been thinking about trying OpenSUSE.
Fedora has a policy to not ship any updates with breaking changes within a single release which for example caused Sway to be stuck on an older version in Fedora 37 or 36 iirc. Not sure if this could possibly be the reason for older i3 in repos because it seems i3 hardly changes but who knows
I get the distro hopper mindset.
It’s just that after a month or two, I always “go home” to Ubuntu or Fedora.
I've always wanted to try OpenSuSE but never got around to it.
I've been using Linux as my main for like 10 years now.
Started with Ubuntu then Debian, Fedora for like a few months then Manjaro for the past 2 years :D
OS has always been on my list to try one day :D
Make sure you create snapshots when it matters and you should be fine. Also, the best KDE distro in my opinion. And on gigabit internet zypper is absolutely fine.
It's also worth mentioning that openSUSE is probably the best distro for running a private server or any kind "serious" use, now that CentOS is dead. openSUSE is based on SLES binaries so it's no surprise that it's super stable.
I'd say the thing about uninstalling the DE that comes by default with the distro you are running, well mainly be prepared for the next boot to be to a CLI login prompt until / unless another DE is installed.
More specifically I guess it depends on whether the uninstall also removes your default greeter and/or login manager.
You can explicitly mark those packages to remain installed if you want to keep the same greeter during a transition, unless itself depends on the DE.
But to the point you were making, yes it's great that simple or automatic snapshot creation allows you to be bolder about trying out changes knowing your can roll right back to a working setup.
And for those trying out new distributions in a virtual machine, it's a reminder that you can benefit from the VM Manager's snapshot-ing abilities regardless of whethe the guest OS provides them.
I tried it multiple times. I really wanted to like OpenSuSe. But everytime something else was broken or broke shortly after install. Although some of it were not Suses fault but KDEs. Nothing that wasn't fixable, but Linux Mint just gives me a smoother out of the Box experience and "just works". The last time was two years ago so it might be much better now, but I have stopped distro hopping since.
That being said, I just love your theme.
And what broke?
Sounds like more of a KDE problem, and I've had similar experiences. I've used and wanted to like KDE several times on different distros, and it's great for a week or so, then it starts showing what a buggy mess it really is. I installed Tumbleweed initially with KDE, but switched to GNOME and have had zero issues. If you don't like GNOME, there's plenty of desktop options on openSUSE.
@@stephenwilson0386 I always ask what issues..
@@stephenwilson0386 This is why it's good for popular distros to make it clear which DE is their best one. Their showcase DE.
As it turns out, KDE is the default DE of OpenSUSE. I think KDE is a lot better now that it was 3 years ago.
Yeah Arch does have stability issues once in a while. My way to mitigate this problem is to install snapper with grub-btrfs tools. If any bug arises, I can revert back to a previous backed up version straight from the grub menu.
Almost talks me into trying openSUSE again. A while back I tried it when I got a new laptop, but had some issues getting the audio to work. Being close to the start of the semester I decided to return to my trusty Ubuntu. The hardware in question happen to be a S76 and was not planning to use pop because it felt like a buntu flavor, but decided to give it a shot. I have to say that I did end up liking it tho.
Another great video featuring OpenSuSe!
I can't say as though I'm looking to ditch the Arch family of distros for it, but I keep hearing about OpenSuSE's stability. The one thing that people keep telling me is that it's stable and it's to the point where you'd almost think they were describing Debian. Considering the smaller user base, I don't know how true that is, but I can say I'm not surprised to hear about it here too.
I can myself confirm that OpenSUSE is awesome. My first Linux distro choices were Ubuntu, ZorinOS, Fedora, EndeavorOS then I went to OpenSUSE and I stick with it. I didn't went first to OpenSUSE because of what people where saying I never give it a try. And YAST is a great piece of admin software without the need to always use CLI.
I've heard about longer laptop battery life in openSUSE, and that they have own patches for the kernel, Firefox and maybe KDE. I'm on Arch now, he's great, but too raw and vanilla, so I'm looking for "more baked" alternatives.
I've been using Tumbleweed for a bit over a year (installed in May 2022) and that's by far the longest I've had any distro installed. Other than some issues at the outset getting my network connection set up (just needed to change DNS settings) it's been extremely stable. I've also switched desktops multiple times. Started on KDE > Cinnamon > GNOME > back to KDE > back to GNOME where I mostly live now, with i3 installed on the side. Once in awhile it seems to hang a little when opening an app especially on i3, but I'm guessing that's a side effect of leftover junk from all my desktop environment hopping. On that note, if anyone has suggestions for a good system cleaner that would be great, since Stacer isn't maintained anymore.
Don't be fooled, if you use it long enough you absolutely will have an update break the system. But it's easy to roll it back to the former state. Been using Tumbleweed for about 4 maybe five years now. Yep, it blows up sometimes, but easy to fix and I give it a 9.9 out of 10. I love it.
I wouldn't say Tumbleweed the rolling distro) is anywhere near as stable as Debian, lol.
Leap (the stable branch) probably compares reasonably well in some sense. IME it rarely breaks, if at all. But I don't know how long they do LTS tho, which I think is the biggest deal about Debian.
yep, TW cured my distro hopping a couple years ago. ran it for a year straight without any major problems. ended up hopping off it for Nobara and am on Debian right now but it'll always be my trusty fallback. when i circle back around to it one day i'll go with Leap instead of TW though. i'm pretty over rolling distros.
when Deb12 starts getting a little long in the tooth i'll probably try out an immutable distro. Vanilla looks pretty cool. then after that inevitably fails go back to opensuse. ...or maybe gentoo lol
Lol what? Tumbleweed cured your distro hopping but then you hopped to Nobara, then you hopped to Debian, and if you ever come back to openSuse it will be Leap, not tumbleweed.. did I understand that right? Lol
This was a great video in my opinion. It explained a lot.
I'm all for giving it a try, thanks for the suggestion! I always spin up new distros on Virtualbox for a test run, and if I really like it, I'll install it onto my main computer.
At the end there you know your own setup better than us but on the 1080p playback it looks like it's merely exposure adjusting to bright reflection of your light reflecting from your thumb looming large in the frame and darkening the image rather than the camera changing the focus.
There's another reflection in the monitor on the back wall that it is also compensating for depending whether you block it in the foreground.
I remember trying out SuSE 10, many years ago. I used it for years... In Germany the gov uses SuSE, so it's stable. Thanks for making this vid and giving it some attention.
I always thought of OpenSuSE as a really polished KDE (back when it was SuSE especially). I always saw it as a home office/small business desktop distro and I remember YAST being great.
is it enough to not like a distro beacuse of the icon/logo? I don't want a camelion on my desktop all the time
Hi, thanks for reviewing openSUSE! :-) I can relate to your points.
Regarding 14:10 - you can definitely edit the mirrors used by editing traditional text files, it is not required to do so using special utilities. Simply head to `/etc/zypp/repos.d/` and edit the `baseurl` lines in the respective .repo files. You can confirm your changes by inspecting `zypper lr -d`.
Edit: one very minor nitpick, since some releases already it's spelled "openSUSE" - the company brand "SuSE" was changed to "SUSE" as it no longer implies the original German acronym.
I'm digging it and it's my second distro I've tried. I'm sticking with OpenSuse Tumbleweed as my daily driver.
29 JUL 2024 at 14.23, currently installing into a VM and at 17:00 into this video, I'm starting to second guess my opinion to install.
Alright, I'ma try it!
For real though, I like your videos. I like the fact you actually talk about your true, or at least seams to be true, opinion. I try to find honest opinions on TH-cam all the time, but it leaves me watching at least 5+ videos before I find somebody that's not saying something only because they make money doing so.
SUSE is great. its the distro that introduced me to Linux (like 20 years ago) at my internship and I didnt feel like it was hard to get into it. it has a special place in my heart and GEEKO to this day lives rent free in my head (I love that logo).
Appreciate that you pronounce SUSE correctly 👍
Never notice any lag or slow updates with zypper.
But I live not far from many repos comparatively
(Norway)
So I would suspect the US servers for your experience.
They had for a while back in the day a really nice online configurator that allowed you to customize the components you wanted in the base setup and packaged up an iso for you to burn to cd\\dvd or USB (VM) it was great for virtualbox and vagrant at the time as you could make very lean iso's and have the profiles for these builds online to build new ones from that seem to be the progenitor for what docker packages and such came from, but I ain't one to gossip... .
Ironically this was the only Linux Linux PC system I ever used.
Usually I'm a PC user.
I've been diving into openSUSE Tumbleweed and it truly shines when paired with my AMD GPU. But when it's NVIDIA's turn, the journey becomes notably rocky. Here's to hoping for enhanced compatibility down the road. (NVIDIA, I'm looking at you!)
This is the reason why I will buy an AMD card. The driver was up to LTS always the reason when the system went kaput
I've had two show stopping driver issues now with nvidia on endeavour now.
Thank you, I think yiur channel also underrated. It's very valuable channel for me.
From what I can tell (new Linux user here who actually opted to try out openSUSE first), it's developed in Germany and certain things about the system appear to be pretty "archaic" or more obtuse than on other distros. In particular stuff like video codecs or the YaST manager not supporting Flatpak even though it's integrated in SUSE.
I did like your more positive insight on it than other people I watched so far. Just trying to see what system I am dealing with
Yeah after many years I'm happy with OpenSUSE Leap 15
This distro TW & Leap are awesome.
Can you make a video about the future for opensuse? The ALP linux?
Primary a Mint and Fedora user, OpenSuSE and also bsd is on my list of want to know better by trying :)
The thing that i like about openSUSE is that the users don't brag about their operating system like it can do anything, and it actually does what its supposed to do. Meanwhile arch users will brag and brag and brag but they pass of system-breaking updates as fine.
The only two rolling releases, I love. OpenSuse TW and Solus
I come from Germany. It's true that we are introverted and quick to nag. My experiences in forums at openSUSE were also interesting at that time. That's why I'm even in the English area to search when I have problems.
We also have good people so it is not, only we Germans are sometimes a bit distant at the beginning, which often changes very quickly and then you have to do with very good people.
OpenSUSE is also not often represented in my environment. There are just the established distros and the time when SUSE was cool is over. That was before Ubuntu.
I use Linux with pause around the year 2000.
One of my first distros was Mandrake and SUSE 9.1 I bought in the box.
At the kiosk even once a Redhat Linux. I think fedora there was not yet, I can also be wrong.
My English is not the best, I have made an effort to understand it.
9:30 Why not flatpaks?
I use Arch primarily because of the AUR and how awesome that is, Opensuse would be my close second choice.
im on Nobara 60, loving it so far coming from Manjaro, Arch was a lot of fun, but Nobara's better for my needs
For me no distro work with hibernation except Debian 12.
The problem is that after copel of day 2-3 days when computer woke up the graphics looks like 1024 color instead of 16.5 miljon and the only fix is hard reset of computer.
The computer is pure AMD with AMD 3950x and 6900 graphics.
All of the big 20 distro has this problem except Debian 12 works perfect
debian is just feel like warm and comfortable home.
@petersz2379 Have you compiled a custom kernel? I used to find that would fix my hardware weirdness, before I upgraded my computer to one that the standard Slackware kernel likes.
Do you have a swap partition?
No i go with standard kernels in exempel Open Susa, Fedora or Arch@@eriksiers
Yes and no in some installation i do have and other don't but the same trouble for me.@@PizzaLovingNerd
I use tumbleweed for 6 months but recently having problems with vscode vlc and msedge. With flatpak that is solved.
OpenSuSE Discord has been excellent to me and my silly little setup [server build with just a Wayland WM]. I have been distro hopping since the 90s and I haven't felt a click like this since #!. I have three systems that I daily and I still try other distros on my laptops, but I keep coming back to Tumbleweed.
As a previous Arch user I had a laugh with the “being scared of a gigantic update” thing. Totally relatable.
Hello Mathew, is it possible to share you configuration for your UI or a video on how you set it up would be awesome, thank you and love how informative this is 👏
Tried it once a year ago and it was the most broken experience I ever had on linux, didn't check on it again since then, I do envy those who can run it normally
Similar experience here
Totally agree, OpenSUSE is quite underrated and doesn't get enough visibility, though I've seen more big Linux TH-camrs covering it, which is awesome. I personally didn't have a super great experience but I did a bit of an unusual install to get Cinnamon desktop on it which is not an option in the installer. I chose Minimal desktop (ICEwm I believe) and then retrofitted Cinnamon over top of that in post. So I can't really blame OpenSUSE for my weird install choices. That said I still think it's a great distro if you like rolling releases but don't want the extra work that Arch needs to manage and set up. Yast is really cool and it is not talked about nearly enough. It's probably the most detailed graphical configurator I've ever seen on Linux. It definitely could be more visually appealing and modern but functionally, I absolutely love it. Also I could be wrong but isn't SUSE basically the pioneer of btrfs and snapper? Either way it seemed very tightly integrated and though I never had to use it, it seemed to do its job.
This is what I love about Arch, it's so snappy, it sets a new standard, plus the package range, omg. I didn't think Linux was that fast until you try Arch. I still think Arch and Debian are overall the best two options, period. I have tried so many distro's, all main variants, so far I always come back to something Debian based, Linux Mint for many years, being the unusual one being Ubuntu based, but still ultimately Debian. Going to retire my Mint/Ubuntu distro and migrate to LMDE.
Giving Arch a try finally after all these years, let's see how it goes. Going to see if it can last a year...🤔 (currently using Arch right now watching this, 😉)
Using Ubuntu since 2008. And still love switching distros! :)
I used opensuse tumbleweed and breaka update progeam
22:00 I think it's not that Americans don't want to use it, it's more like they have no reason to try it. As you said, it's a small distro and people usually go for the popular distros. In Europe the situation is a bit different. Suse is based in Europe and therefore popular with European companies and government institutions. So a lot of people in the IT sector are exposed to it at work and then decide to use it at home.
Yes, there are other forums. Some of them are mailing lists (as a KDE3 user, I subscribe to the KDE3 list for example).
I've been using Opensuse since it was a German company called SuSE. There are two desktops and server running it 24/7 in my house right now. I have never, ever had an update take 2-1/2 hours. I can take a bare metal brand new machine and install Opensuse, and all subsequent updates, in less time than that these days. I've done it, just recently. So, to me, based on over 20 years of experience running it, you having an update take that long is an anomaly. Even on a dialup connection, updates never took that long. Install, maybe, but not an update.
i have several computers on several different desks and all of em have a different distro so i stay up to date on hows this or that distro nowadays. those are mainly, mint, fedora, manjaro and thumbleweed or ubuntu sometimes. One computer now has zorin.
Doind SuSE Linux since 1998. It has had its ups and downs. When SuSE was aquired by Novell, it became nearly unusable, but OpenSuSE isn´t bad. For desktops I still prefer Zorin, but I have an old MacBook on OpenSuSE and it's nice enough.
I tried it for a week. It's crap.
Can't get a samba server set up without hosing the system, every time!
Welcome to the Green Side!
Of course people is a bit abrupt, it's a German distro after all ;)
You forgot to mention the best part: Suse's music videos, haha
Great video! Thanks for your insights.
brtfs + snapshots is a great combo. i use it on arch but it's so nice to be able to rollback an update if something doesn't work right after.
Also I'm eager to see your upcoming Btrfs video. 😊
If I remember right, my issue with OpenSuSE was updates. This was several years ago and updates would come in as individual updates as well as packages. The individual ones would not install if there were prereq's. You had to figure out which in the list was the package and then get it to install. Eventually, I just gave up on it. I had a list of updates that I could not get to install and I switched to another.
Has this been corrected in newer iterations of the distro?
I gotta say I'm blown away by opensuse. I'm excited that they're moving towards a slow rolling release
zypper almost made me hop away, but once I turned off the setting that has it refresh on every se or in, it just edged into an acceptable speed for me.
❤ I love OPENSUSE!!! 🎉🎉🎉 Show us more!!!
TY, Am used to Arch based but maybe this is one for me to hop to.
I did research in Los Angeles Portland, Chicago, New York over 200,000 people use Linux Susie
I would sometimes swap distros daily but I landed on Endeavour OS with KDE and it's home. The only reason I will swap again is to install Arch.
i used to use opensuse back before the split to tumbleweed and leap. but it has its place. Im a fedora user btw
i packaged my iso into a live installer but i need to fix the login policies, i will have an os for you guys soon
My only problem with it is that my computer has big problem starting the newer kernel with grub
and every tuto did nothing
I would also like to point out. That part of the problem (from what I found) is that they, like many other distros, didn't respect grub spec on the emplacement of their grub config in uefi. The spec demand to put them in a folder named Linux, not one of the name of the distro. And grub don't want to update their config generator, so support custom emplacement.