Going through all the standard apps gets less and less interesting over time. I was just curious about what gecko/SUSE is about, what makes it different, but the same routine over and over again showing video players and note taking apps is too much for me. Just some friendly but direct feedback.
Couldn't agree more. Most of the desktop apps like calculators (which he talked about for 5 minutes, almost literally), file managers, and media players are completely interchangeable. Most people are also going to change the theme to their liking. I'm much more interested in what makes openSUSE and Gecko unique from the hundreds of Ubuntu and Arch derivatives - what's special about YaST and Zypper? Why would a noob want to pick this over something else? What are some shortcomings?
@@stephenwilson0386 As a lazy Linux noob about 1 year into his dual booting Linux journey who is looking for a beginner friendly rolling release distro (Garuda and Solus os being the two I was already looking at) this is basically giving opensuse the Ubuntu treatment of having a more out of the box ready distro with multimedia code and stuff already installed. Opensuse is based on suse enterprise Linux, a commercial distro. It's kind of like the reverse fedora where red hat is actually based on Fedora, while opensuse is based on enterprise. It uses the RPM package format, and is a bit of an audible in that it comes in both a rolling release and a standard stable release, known as tumbleweed and leap respectively. It's known for its stability and that's about all I know. It also seems to be far less popular than Garuda or Solus, which means it'll probably be harder to find help.
actually in order to make a full update on OpenSUSE rolling mode, you should have ran "sudo zypper dup" ("dup" instead of "up") in order to pickup the latest kernel with packages. Anyways, thanks for showing love to OpenSUSE, I like that distro and use it as a daily driver myself.
Also important to add that if installed with btrfs then a snapshot of the full root directory (excluding /home) gets created every time a program is installed or updated and added to the grub boot loader. That means that if anything breaks you can boot to the snapshot before it broke and resume work seamlessly within a couple min and resolve any issues at a later time.
Finally DT showing some love to openSUSE! I'm on Leap, which is one-to-one binary identical to the SLES, basically free (as in price) SLES. The good thing about openSUSE is that you have a fixed point release variant, which is based on an enterprise base, and you have an always latest and greatest bleeding edge rolling release. No other distro offers this.
And tumbleweed is aiming to be bleeding edge TESTED software. There is much fresher updates in suse if you add the "factory" repository, straight outta compiler
About the version number: 1) for the static version, it basically goes leap-version.date of build, so its 153, which is the leap version(15.3), and 220104 for 4th January, 2022 2) for the rolling version, it goes 999.date-of-build, so 999 and 220105 for 5th January, 2022. Also, if you're using the rolling variant, it's recommended to upgrade using "zypper dup" rather than "zypper up"
its kinda confusing, why the date YYMMDD? its probably better to set it to something like DDMMYY or if they want to MMDDYY. I would do it like this: Static release=MM.YY Rolling release=MM.YY-999
@@francicoria8799 Hi there, GeckoLinux creator here. YYMMDD is the only format that sorts alphabetically==chronologically, which is important for my directory listings. ;-)
I'm actually dual booting from separate drives, haven't had any issues. I learned that lesson a decade ago, and virtualization was the solution for me back then.
Interesting. In my case, I always install multiple OSes in the same drive, and I have also learned my lesson a while ago, when separating OSes on different drives messed up my bootloader badly. And I have no problem running this way.
This is literally just OpenSUSE. And while dualbooting on separate drives take less effort and are easier to maintain, getting GRUB to recognize an operating system on a different drive is a total pain in the ass to do. Trust me, I've tried.
Clementine is almost the Winamp of Linux - lightweight and low cpu usage but loads of features, one which MOST music players miss is the lack of randomising the playlist - (not shuffle mode). This means you won't hear the same song twice which is what shuffle will do. Not much a fan of Rythmbox.
I really like openSUSE. The only problem is parallel packages and repositories which you have to manage constantly ... a big headache indeed! Other than that, it's a very solid and high quality distro.
@@folksurvival I meant 90% sorry. and yes what you said is true but did you ever consider why the main major distros use it? it's because it works well is by far the best option for an init system if you're using Linux
@@yoda6239 "did you ever consider why the main major distros use it?" Of course. "it's because it works well is by far the best option for an init system if you're using Linux" False. Also it is more because of corporate interests.
To update openSuSE TW/Gecko Rolling, it's advisable to use zypper dup --allow-vendor-changes instead of zypper up. You use zypper up only on Leap, eventually up --allow-vendor-changes if you have 3rd party repos :)
true. geckolinux is nothing more than just being configured to not install recommended packages and has packman repos by default thus, includes proprietary codecs. when you dup on it, it is basically just opensuse. nothing more. it's not bad, i just find the video inaccurate.
@@ashab1 Exactly, some people have to use WiFi in their setup and can't use Ethernet. Without proprietary WiFi drivers, that can make openSUSE a hassle to configure in the beginning. Gecko Linux resolves this and other potential issues without drastically changing the overall experience.
Here is an idea, You should divide the video into parts so that we can seek faster on the youtube player. First part for the VM setup and second part for the review.
What is the difference between openSUSE and Gecko, though? Maybe I missed it, but I watched the whole video and saw how it is similar to openSUSE, but I don't see how it's better (taking it to "the next level") or even just different in any substantial way.
It is not a seperate distro as such. Its just opensuse with specific configuration. Main diff is the installer which is calamares and live system on which it runs. And yes, with community repo for preference for packages
Thanks DT. I always *wanted* to like OpenSUSE and have tried it so many times, but after the last incident a few years ago (where it tried to wipe the wrong drive on install...) I gave up. Tempted to give Gecko a try now!
Wow, this is like all the best parts of OpenSuse and none of the frustrating parts. It was such a bear installing my printer in OpenSuse, and the installation of the OS took like 13 minutes! I am going to try this out.
Hey Distrolovers, I am one of your fans here from Arcola, TEXAS, USA. Just wanted to say I have had COVID for at least 15 days, and 10 of those days, I was certain I was going to die. I am not vaccinated. Today was, my first day to get some solid food in 15 days.
20200116-2017 OpenS.u.S.E since version 5.1 ---- Now with Tumbleweed, the rolling distro. In fact i' have forgotten c.l.i and some other old goodies as bash, u.s.w. Oh man those were the good days. But my first Linux distro was Slackware 3.1 installed from 12 floppies 1.44 - Gentoo also. - L.F.S. - Some day, may be, i will come back to learn.
Haha how you got both “Background” and “background” folders showing different set of images, This is The Linux Way: when we have no central authority controlling it and deciding, those things will definitely appear due to each project taking its own way of doing things, But this is also the main reason why I love Linux and giving its strength.
In my experience both Gecko Linux and openSUSE budgie are broken. Any changed settings don't get saved. I wonder if concentrating on having fewer available DEs wouldn't be better
Hey!! Your a huge insperation to my own TH-cam channel, do you have any tips? Also just wanted to thank you for introducing me to Linux, now I use "arch btw"
Wow all these distro reviews are the same. Lets install it, go trough each item in menu, check versions, change wallpaper... What makes this distro different than others, how its DE is different, how it compares to previous version?
And what will be the best audio player under Linux, equaling Foobar bitperfect audio playback with external USB DAC? I'm fond of Audacious, but it's hard to setup (Alsa HW output, etc.) and still no SACD DSF/DSD native support... BTW, great video.
I tried, I really tried... I've been attempting to install Open SUSE (both TW and L) on my new i7-12700k system. TW gets into the installer, but doesn't complete (says that packages have been edited and can't install a font. gets stuck at 45%. With Leap, not even able to find any disc drives or even the DVD/USB it's booting from. Saw this video, decided to give give Gecko a shot (had time to kill and nothing to lose.) Success. But it was fleeting. After going into the Display setting to change from mirrored to spanned monitors. All screens went black with a mouse curser. re-starting with only a single monitor plugged in got me back to the desktop. but It wont hot-register additional monitors plugged in. When re-starting. After sign in. 3 black screens with a mouse curser... I tried I really tried. Jordan
Update. Had more success with the KDE variant, but it still eventually died :( (XFCE first try) This time after running: Sudo Zypper Update and about 30+ minutes of updates. Restart with the inability to get into the Desktop environment. Left with an 80's terminal screen where I can log in. After doing so it politely informs me I have no mail. No knowing enough. I'm left with a flashing curser and not much hope... Again. I've tried. I've really tried. Jordan
Hello DT. Love your videos. I'm facing an issue with changing the default system font for non-Latin languages (i.e. Arabic). The font that came with the system is not readable. There is not a lot of sources on this topic. Even the Arch Wiki only give instructions on how to install Arabic fonts but not how to set the default ones. Some pages are pointing to editing the fontconfig file, but there is not clear explanation. Would be glad if anyone can help with this.
I have problem when install open suse tumbleweed , my installation progress stuck on loading blackscreen with notif "Loading basic driver" and this progresss never completed, pls help i'm very want to try suse
Why does dual-booting on one drive/separate partitions cause problems? Im looking to try Linux again, I did ages ago, I dual booted on one drive and I DID indeed encounter problems....the GRUB bootloader menu became corrupted I believe, rendering BOTH my operating systems useless. Is what Im talking about the main problem with dual booting on one drive or are there other problems too?
Because OpenSuse does many things better? The uninstall of the GUI, LTT experienced with pop OS, I experienced dozens of times with debian/Ubuntu based distros. Never with OpenSuse. I can use both external monitors with my Ryzen+Nvidia Notebook, which I cannot with any other distro. OpenSuse KDE has many polishing, which other distro don't. Kubuntu for years makes you dislike KDE, but OpenSuse makes you love it.
@@larsradtke4097 almost all of the problems you listed had to do with being debian based. that was only one of the OS's i listed. Also, I am not talking about the downsides of distros, but the benefits/use cases.
having the os on different drives with each having its own MBR it's technical not dual boot anymore and yes .. the best approach.. even disk encryption does not work having windows and Linux on the same drive
I use Linux mint Cinnamon as my only OS on my machine and I sometimes get that Video driver message also I run driver manager and get No drivers needed
Re Clementine: I'd recommend Strawberry instead, which is a fork of Clementine, specifically because the latter hasn't seen any updates for a long time.
@@jamespleger752 I think it's a relatively recent fork. I don't know if I added an extra repo for it, but I'm currently at version 1.0.1, and it works far more reliably than Clementine for me.
If you enable opengl and hardware accelaration in kvm for vm then cinamon does not complain anymore about hardware acel. I have managed to do that only on laptop with amd apu, on my main pc with geforce it does not work. But thanks for advice, I need that accel on vm, I'll try other de in vm.
Sir, can you please make a video of installing dwm on a laptop with arch. A full video please. Can you make it please, we need battery indicators for laptop 😭. Please
Mr. Tube... I'm switching to Linux. I have a dual boot laptp w/ a single NVMe drive that's partitioned into Windows & Linux Mint. Windows is Bitlockered and Mint's partition is encrypted. I have a backup strategy for Windows- File History, a full backup along with a system recovery drive. What are my options in Linux Mint to have the same level of recover-ability as I do on the Windows side of the fence? Do you have a video on this? If so, I haven't found it yet. Thanks!
The standard way to do backup in linux is using rsync. I'd also recommend using Btrfs as filesystem combined with snapper to roll back any changes or even recover from a broken system. Actually Gecko linux from this video does that pretty good and out of the box. Yast and Zypper make a snapshot before and after every installation/removal of packages. There's even a graphical interface for rollbacks in the Yast tool which looks nice.
Dude, Please review Regata OS. Is a Brazilian distro based on openSUSE and it rules. One the of the most friendly experiences in gaming on Linux I've ever had.
Its funny because I have no idea what the point of OpenSUSE is so i have no idea how it can be improved lol i always looked at it as like.... the... stepchild? lol
Afaik it is primarily aimed at server and developer/enterprise stuff. SUSE has some nice developer tools such as open build service and lots of things to set up with different cloud services that I can remember right now. Tumbleweed is also rolling release which is nice, and I think they are based around rpm packages so should work with anything based on the red hat stack. It's a pretty neat distro. Always enjoy my time with it and the ease of setting up dev tools whenever I try it out, though the package manager is rather slow from what I remember.
@@matyasmarkkovacs8336 yast is from a different era. Back then it was a game changer. Today most of the stuff the average user does is easiest done within the DE settings.
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Going through all the standard apps gets less and less interesting over time. I was just curious about what gecko/SUSE is about, what makes it different, but the same routine over and over again showing video players and note taking apps is too much for me. Just some friendly but direct feedback.
Couldn't agree more. Most of the desktop apps like calculators (which he talked about for 5 minutes, almost literally), file managers, and media players are completely interchangeable. Most people are also going to change the theme to their liking. I'm much more interested in what makes openSUSE and Gecko unique from the hundreds of Ubuntu and Arch derivatives - what's special about YaST and Zypper? Why would a noob want to pick this over something else? What are some shortcomings?
@@stephenwilson0386 As a lazy Linux noob about 1 year into his dual booting Linux journey who is looking for a beginner friendly rolling release distro (Garuda and Solus os being the two I was already looking at) this is basically giving opensuse the Ubuntu treatment of having a more out of the box ready distro with multimedia code and stuff already installed. Opensuse is based on suse enterprise Linux, a commercial distro. It's kind of like the reverse fedora where red hat is actually based on Fedora, while opensuse is based on enterprise. It uses the RPM package format, and is a bit of an audible in that it comes in both a rolling release and a standard stable release, known as tumbleweed and leap respectively. It's known for its stability and that's about all I know. It also seems to be far less popular than Garuda or Solus, which means it'll probably be harder to find help.
I felt the same way. This was boring and uninteresting.
Gecko managed to ship Pantheon desktop with a rolling-release model and I respect them for that so much.
actually in order to make a full update on OpenSUSE rolling mode, you should have ran "sudo zypper dup" ("dup" instead of "up") in order to pickup the latest kernel with packages. Anyways, thanks for showing love to OpenSUSE, I like that distro and use it as a daily driver myself.
Приветствую тебя, хамелеонный камрад
Same here! Thanks for showing some love for us Professional Linux users!
Also important to add that if installed with btrfs then a snapshot of the full root directory (excluding /home) gets created every time a program is installed or updated and added to the grub boot loader. That means that if anything breaks you can boot to the snapshot before it broke and resume work seamlessly within a couple min and resolve any issues at a later time.
@@mashygreen6974 that’s an awesome addition worth mentioning! thanks 😊
Finally DT showing some love to openSUSE! I'm on Leap, which is one-to-one binary identical to the SLES, basically free (as in price) SLES.
The good thing about openSUSE is that you have a fixed point release variant, which is based on an enterprise base, and you have an always latest and greatest bleeding edge rolling release. No other distro offers this.
Debian kinda does this though they tell you not to use the testing or unstable branches.
And tumbleweed is aiming to be bleeding edge TESTED software. There is much fresher updates in suse if you add the "factory" repository, straight outta compiler
Who the hell still uses SUSE? Third world companies?
@@bthegawd8113 watch your attitude
@@bthegawd8113 why the hate?
About the version number:
1) for the static version, it basically goes leap-version.date of build, so its 153, which is the leap version(15.3), and 220104 for 4th January, 2022
2) for the rolling version, it goes 999.date-of-build, so 999 and 220105 for 5th January, 2022.
Also, if you're using the rolling variant, it's recommended to upgrade using "zypper dup" rather than "zypper up"
its kinda confusing, why the date YYMMDD? its probably better to set it to something like DDMMYY or if they want to MMDDYY. I would do it like this:
Static release=MM.YY
Rolling release=MM.YY-999
@@francicoria8799 the date format kind of follows ISO8601, which specifies dates to be YYYYMMDD.
skipping the date would probably be fine to me though
@@francicoria8799 Hi there, GeckoLinux creator here. YYMMDD is the only format that sorts alphabetically==chronologically, which is important for my directory listings. ;-)
@@francicoria8799 YMD is an international standard and you see it all over when dealing with things online, especially in the GNU/LInux world.
@@francicoria8799 YYMMDD has the great advantage that in a file listing by name the listing will be in chronological order (ascending /descending)
I'm actually dual booting from separate drives, haven't had any issues. I learned that lesson a decade ago, and virtualization was the solution for me back then.
Interesting. In my case, I always install multiple OSes in the same drive, and I have also learned my lesson a while ago, when separating OSes on different drives messed up my bootloader badly. And I have no problem running this way.
Nice. I’ve always considered opensuse a beginner friendly desktop. Good to see gecko is making it simpler and stabler!!!
This is literally just OpenSUSE.
And while dualbooting on separate drives take less effort and are easier to maintain, getting GRUB to recognize an operating system on a different drive is a total pain in the ass to do. Trust me, I've tried.
It is, but it comes with extra drivers WIFI etc allowing it to be used out of the box on finicky hardware.
I agree 100% with the dual-boot premise - always use separate physical drives. Nice review DT!
Man, I really love OpenSUSE
Clementine is almost the Winamp of Linux - lightweight and low cpu usage but loads of features, one which MOST music players miss is the lack of randomising the playlist - (not shuffle mode). This means you won't hear the same song twice which is what shuffle will do. Not much a fan of Rythmbox.
I really like openSUSE. The only problem is parallel packages and repositories which you have to manage constantly ... a big headache indeed! Other than that, it's a very solid and high quality distro.
and soystemd.
@@folksurvival you realize like 90 of Linux users use enjoy and appreciate systemd
@@yoda6239 More than 90 Linux users use it. The majority of Linux users use it because the majority of Linux distros switched over to it.
@@folksurvival I meant 90% sorry. and yes what you said is true but did you ever consider why the main major distros use it? it's because it works well is by far the best option for an init system if you're using Linux
@@yoda6239 "did you ever consider why the main major distros use it?"
Of course.
"it's because it works well is by far the best option for an init system if you're using Linux"
False. Also it is more because of corporate interests.
To update openSuSE TW/Gecko Rolling, it's advisable to use zypper dup --allow-vendor-changes instead of zypper up. You use zypper up only on Leap, eventually up --allow-vendor-changes if you have 3rd party repos :)
Gecko is an exercise in style. It will never be better than OpenSuse.
true. geckolinux is nothing more than just being configured to not install recommended packages and has packman repos by default thus, includes proprietary codecs. when you dup on it, it is basically just opensuse. nothing more. it's not bad, i just find the video inaccurate.
@@socvirnylestela5878 Mint started with similar tweaks to Ubuntu. With a strong community backing Gecko has the potential to be more
@@socvirnylestela5878 Forgot to add that I'm not disagreeing with you, just throwing in my $0.02
It is for me as it comes with proprietary WIFI drivers allowing to actually work on my system .
@@ashab1 Exactly, some people have to use WiFi in their setup and can't use Ethernet. Without proprietary WiFi drivers, that can make openSUSE a hassle to configure in the beginning. Gecko Linux resolves this and other potential issues without drastically changing the overall experience.
You like shortcuts. Clearing your terminal = ctrl+l :)
Here is an idea, You should divide the video into parts so that we can seek faster on the youtube player. First part for the VM setup and second part for the review.
What is the difference between openSUSE and Gecko, though? Maybe I missed it, but I watched the whole video and saw how it is similar to openSUSE, but I don't see how it's better (taking it to "the next level") or even just different in any substantial way.
It is not a seperate distro as such. Its just opensuse with specific configuration. Main diff is the installer which is calamares and live system on which it runs. And yes, with community repo for preference for packages
It's just OpenSUSE but with more DE images provided and some other proprietary but necessary packages.
Just like Linux Mint and Ubuntu.
Gecko is the a lot more easier version of opensuse.
It includes extra drivers so works out of the box on finicky hardware WIFI etc.
Thanks DT. I always *wanted* to like OpenSUSE and have tried it so many times, but after the last incident a few years ago (where it tried to wipe the wrong drive on install...) I gave up. Tempted to give Gecko a try now!
It should be sudo zypper dup for tumbleweed. zypper up will create problems on rolling ooensuse/tumbleweed. Up is for leap/static versions.
Wow, this is like all the best parts of OpenSuse and none of the frustrating parts. It was such a bear installing my printer in OpenSuse, and the installation of the OS took like 13 minutes! I am going to try this out.
Hey Distrolovers, I am one of your fans here from Arcola, TEXAS, USA.
Just wanted to say I have had COVID for at least 15 days, and 10 of those days, I was certain I was
going to die. I am not vaccinated. Today was, my first day to get some solid food in 15 days.
Hope you're feeling better now and are on the road to recovery!
20200116-2017 OpenS.u.S.E since version 5.1 ---- Now with Tumbleweed, the rolling distro. In fact i' have forgotten c.l.i and some other old goodies as bash, u.s.w. Oh man those were the good days. But my first Linux distro was Slackware 3.1 installed from 12 floppies 1.44 - Gentoo also. - L.F.S. - Some day, may be, i will come back to learn.
Haha how you got both “Background” and “background” folders showing different set of images, This is The Linux Way: when we have no central authority controlling it and deciding, those things will definitely appear due to each project taking its own way of doing things, But this is also the main reason why I love Linux and giving its strength.
Fiddled around with wallpapers a while and barely scratched the surface with YaST...
In my experience both Gecko Linux and openSUSE budgie are broken. Any changed settings don't get saved. I wonder if concentrating on having fewer available DEs wouldn't be better
This was one of my first distributions.
I recommend strawberry music player is a fork of clementine
This long name is a date: 22-01-05 but without dashes... And 999 must be to say it is a rolling release version...
Hey DT! Just wanted to wish you a good day, bye.
Could you try Alpine Linux? I plan installing it soon on my 2012 craptop.
Dude, you made my day, Craptop = Crappy laptop, very funny. LOL! :D
@@ezequielortiz4188 A lot of people call old laptops craptops. lol
@@slavko5666 ofc i have a computosaur here too ^^
23:35 my eyes hurts
Hey!! Your a huge insperation to my own TH-cam channel, do you have any tips? Also just wanted to thank you for introducing me to Linux, now I use "arch btw"
Wow all these distro reviews are the same. Lets install it, go trough each item in menu, check versions, change wallpaper... What makes this distro different than others, how its DE is different, how it compares to previous version?
cinnamon is the best de out there imo. i use fedora cinnamon and feel at home with how up to date and stable it is.
I agree, Cinnamon is the best DE on Linux IMO. Followed by Mate.
And KDE imo
I've been dual booting since the ol' days. I've never had an issue putting both OS on the same drive. YMMV but I just haven't.
And what will be the best audio player under Linux, equaling Foobar bitperfect audio playback with external USB DAC? I'm fond of Audacious, but it's hard to setup (Alsa HW output, etc.) and still no SACD DSF/DSD native support... BTW, great video.
I tried, I really tried... I've been attempting to install Open SUSE (both TW and L) on my new i7-12700k system. TW gets into the installer, but doesn't complete (says that packages have been edited and can't install a font. gets stuck at 45%. With Leap, not even able to find any disc drives or even the DVD/USB it's booting from.
Saw this video, decided to give give Gecko a shot (had time to kill and nothing to lose.) Success. But it was fleeting.
After going into the Display setting to change from mirrored to spanned monitors. All screens went black with a mouse curser. re-starting with only a single monitor plugged in got me back to the desktop. but It wont hot-register additional monitors plugged in. When re-starting. After sign in. 3 black screens with a mouse curser...
I tried I really tried.
Jordan
Update. Had more success with the KDE variant, but it still eventually died :( (XFCE first try)
This time after running: Sudo Zypper Update and about 30+ minutes of updates. Restart with the inability to get into the Desktop environment. Left with an 80's terminal screen where I can log in. After doing so it politely informs me I have no mail.
No knowing enough. I'm left with a flashing curser and not much hope...
Again. I've tried. I've really tried.
Jordan
That theme looks like the mint-x theme, it's kinda old
I installed it in a Raspberry Pi 4 and it goes perfectly. You should do a review about void linux sometime!
th-cam.com/video/49jhT9SaOcQ/w-d-xo.html
@@dmz985 thanks dude! didn't see it
Hello DT. Love your videos.
I'm facing an issue with changing the default system font for non-Latin languages (i.e. Arabic). The font that came with the system is not readable. There is not a lot of sources on this topic. Even the Arch Wiki only give instructions on how to install Arabic fonts but not how to set the default ones. Some pages are pointing to editing the fontconfig file, but there is not clear explanation.
Would be glad if anyone can help with this.
I have problem when install open suse tumbleweed , my installation progress stuck on loading blackscreen with notif "Loading basic driver" and this progresss never completed, pls help i'm very want to try suse
Tumbleweed version is just the date of release (20)22-01-05 in this case.
Why does dual-booting on one drive/separate partitions cause problems? Im looking to try Linux again, I did ages ago, I dual booted on one drive and I DID indeed encounter problems....the GRUB bootloader menu became corrupted I believe, rendering BOTH my operating systems useless. Is what Im talking about the main problem with dual booting on one drive or are there other problems too?
I don't see the reason for open-suse based distros when arch, debain, fedora, and centOS based OS's have full coverage for all use cases
Have you ever used openSUSE? It's VERY different from most Linux distros.
Because OpenSuse does many things better?
The uninstall of the GUI, LTT experienced with pop OS, I experienced dozens of times with debian/Ubuntu based distros. Never with OpenSuse.
I can use both external monitors with my Ryzen+Nvidia Notebook, which I cannot with any other distro.
OpenSuse KDE has many polishing, which other distro don't.
Kubuntu for years makes you dislike KDE, but OpenSuse makes you love it.
@@cnr_0778 I have, that's my point.
@@larsradtke4097 almost all of the problems you listed had to do with being debian based. that was only one of the OS's i listed. Also, I am not talking about the downsides of distros, but the benefits/use cases.
@@Steerable6827 what are the pros for redhat based distros?
having the os on different drives with each having its own MBR it's technical not dual boot anymore and yes .. the best approach.. even disk encryption does not work having windows and Linux on the same drive
I use Linux mint Cinnamon as my only OS on my machine and I sometimes get that Video driver message also I run driver manager and get No drivers needed
It means your hardware accelerator is not running and does slow down your workflow !
Awesome videos. Great for us newbies!!
Zypper is slower than pacman
Re Clementine: I'd recommend Strawberry instead, which is a fork of Clementine, specifically because the latter hasn't seen any updates for a long time.
Thank you, I never heard of Strawberry, but it is in the repository. Tried it and it is very nice; definitely more polished than Clementine.
@@jamespleger752 I think it's a relatively recent fork. I don't know if I added an extra repo for it, but I'm currently at version 1.0.1, and it works far more reliably than Clementine for me.
it sounds like its a release candidate version
I have to install gparted becouse i dont know how would i format my usb drives without it.
mkfs
@@user-he4ef9br7zThat's a terminal tool
I gotta stop watching so many videos on different distros. Imma start hopping again
i didn't get the difference between gecko linux and opensuse...
I'm installing this today😁 also can't wait for version 999.999.999😳 they really do have long version numbers 😂
If you enable opengl and hardware accelaration in kvm for vm then cinamon does not complain anymore about hardware acel. I have managed to do that only on laptop with amd apu, on my main pc with geforce it does not work.
But thanks for advice, I need that accel on vm, I'll try other de in vm.
DT looking fresh
Sir, can you please make a video of installing dwm on a laptop with arch.
A full video please.
Can you make it please, we need battery indicators for laptop 😭.
Please
Would you recommend SUSE (I guess OpenSuse) as a daily driver?
Mr. Tube... I'm switching to Linux. I have a dual boot laptp w/ a single NVMe drive that's partitioned into Windows & Linux Mint. Windows is Bitlockered and Mint's partition is encrypted. I have a backup strategy for Windows- File History, a full backup along with a system recovery drive. What are my options in Linux Mint to have the same level of recover-ability as I do on the Windows side of the fence? Do you have a video on this? If so, I haven't found it yet. Thanks!
The standard way to do backup in linux is using rsync. I'd also recommend using Btrfs as filesystem combined with snapper to roll back any changes or even recover from a broken system. Actually Gecko linux from this video does that pretty good and out of the box. Yast and Zypper make a snapshot before and after every installation/removal of packages. There's even a graphical interface for rollbacks in the Yast tool which looks nice.
So, how does Gecko Linux take OpenSUSE to the next level?
just tweaks for end user
Dude, Please review Regata OS. Is a Brazilian distro based on openSUSE and it rules. One the of the most friendly experiences in gaming on Linux I've ever had.
Downloading it now. Connection is slow as all hell. But im not going anywhere.
Hey dt, what software does dtos use when you press "Print screen"? i cant find it anywhere
if you can love Arch I see no reason why you will not love Tumbleweed, that coupled with BTRFS. OMG!
i like the content of this channel but i can't subscribe in patreon because is not accessible from my country 😔
They accomplished to make cinnamon look uglyer than Mint's default. That's something.
Old styled but not ugly
who does not love (tumble)WEED?
Thank you so much !
Why would you name a package manager zypper? To me that implies an archive manager.
Packages ARE archives.
@@syretia9608 last time I checked archive managers don't update repositories and install or remove software.
@@jinxterx That's not relevant to anything...
@@syretia9608 ok troll, good job...
@@jinxterx I'm not a troll. Just because it tells you what it does, manages archives, doesn't make it not a package manager.
OpenSUS is better try AmongOS
keep up the good work
Thanks! :D
But, how do one install Emacs? 😀
Looks good.
OpenSUSE is my hated love-child. I love it but I hate zypper so much that I retorted to using snap in it.
Snap? Damn, you really do hate zypper
Eww. Flatpak is waaaaaayyy better lol
@@Sqwert-g6h it isn't at all. Depends completely on the app and how its packaged.
Is DT-OS already a thing?
Windows Calculator? It doesn't even know how to calculate. 2+2x3 for Windows is 12… Go figure!!!
Does openSUSE make their own kernel or are they an offshoot of a another distro? (Like Ubuntu being a branch of Debian for instance?)
Opensuse Always Better
Nah . I'll stick with Deb testing,MX or LMDE...
Can you install yast on any distro?
Nope
i like the phrase: microsoft can keep their calculator
algo
Así es
This video title.. lol! too click baity.
I can't see how this can be better than openSUSE. Kinda a waste of effort sadly.
The only good OpenSUSE is OpenSUSE.
they missed the amazing opportunity to rename OpenSUSE to OpenSUS
Its funny because I have no idea what the point of OpenSUSE is so i have no idea how it can be improved lol i always looked at it as like.... the... stepchild? lol
Afaik it is primarily aimed at server and developer/enterprise stuff. SUSE has some nice developer tools such as open build service and lots of things to set up with different cloud services that I can remember right now. Tumbleweed is also rolling release which is nice, and I think they are based around rpm packages so should work with anything based on the red hat stack. It's a pretty neat distro. Always enjoy my time with it and the ease of setting up dev tools whenever I try it out, though the package manager is rather slow from what I remember.
x2 😂
OpenSUSE? Man i haven’t touched that distro since 2012. I thought it died already but I guess the handful of fans of it are keeping it alive.
openSUSE for me is a sad story of how to make things unnecessarily complicated. Great quality, weak UX and aesthetics.
How does it make things complicated when there's a graphical tool called yast which just makes configuring things easier?
@@matyasmarkkovacs8336 yast is from a different era. Back then it was a game changer. Today most of the stuff the average user does is easiest done within the DE settings.
Hey DT. When you were born, did you work out of the box?