10 Things To Do After Installing openSUSE

Today I talk about 10 things you should do after you've installed openSUSE.
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0:00 Intro
0:43 A Couple Disclaimers
1:38 Making Zypper Faster
4:54 Learning YaST
7:15 Create a Forum Account
8:10 Get the Codecs
11:12 Install Nvidia Drivers
12:31 Get Familiar With Zypper
16:10 Learn About BTRFS
20:02 Install Flatpak
20:48 Change Boot Delay
22:00 Finally Updating Your System
25:46 Wrapping Up

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[soulstenance]

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

[GuessITsLuke]

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

[JustinVoldenCM]

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

[WillStephenson-suwu]

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

[PenguinPotato]

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

[keylowmike]

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

[wstephenson]

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

[airbossone]

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

[fakecubed]

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

[bigTA]

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

[TheLinuxCast]

0:00 Intro
0:43 A Couple Disclaimers
1:38 Making Zypper Faster
4:54 Learning YaST
7:15 Create a Forum Account
8:10 Get the Codecs
11:12 Install Nvidia Drivers
12:31 Get Familiar With Zypper
16:10 Learn About BTRFS
20:02 Install Flatpak
20:48 Change Boot Delay
22:00 Finally Updating Your System
25:46 Wrapping Up

[loreyancejorome]

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

[OraOraOra]

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

[denisbaev]

Thanks for going over Snapper, loving OpenSUSE w KDE so much.

Also the grub delay was spot on, had mine disabled early too. Those precious 8 seconds are mine again 😂

[johnrieley]

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

[lucaspinho]

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

[garybean]

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

[wstephenson]

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

[iworms]

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

[tmiki]

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