Arch Linux & openSUSE Tumbleweed - Rolling Distro Showdown

In this community requested video I take a look at two incredible rolling distributions Arch Linux and openSUSE Tumbleweed to compare the advantages and disadvantages of each. After spending several months with Arch and over a month with openSUSE this video highlights the good, bad, and ugly of each. We look at the administration, software management, security, and update processes along with the overall workflow and communities surrounding these two projects. This video is designed to help you decide which one is best for you.

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[kprajat]

Switched to OpenSuse last week and I can tell you, this is the best distro I have used ever and I have used quite a few. I was one of the early developers of ArchLabs Linux. I know Arch well enough to compare it with OpenSuse. Arch is great but OpenSuse is what runs best on my system with no issues at all..

[coreyshort]

Opensuse is rock solid right out of the box.

[krozareq]

Rolling distro is the way to go with weekly advancements in Linux gaming with support for some of the Windows games I still play. Cutting edge but not too cutting edge unless you enable the testing repository. I've had no issues with updates in Arch and I run "pacman -Syu" every couple of days. But if developmental releases are your thing then install the -git packages that are readily available either on pacman or the AUR.

OpenSUSE looks very nice. I didn't even know about YaST before watching this. I highly highly recommend learning the shell because it's incredibly powerful and allows automation that's really only limited by your imagination and skill. In addition, especially for gamers, it's likely shell use will be required to work out problems and do things such as set up GPU fan profiles. But it looks to be far more complete on the GUI side than any other distro I've seen, including Ubuntu. That's a big plus for newer Linux users. OpenSUSE, along with Pop!_OS and Manjaro are going on my recommendation list for converts from Windows 7.

[dezmondwhitney]

Many thanks for this. I Learnt a lot here. As a home user though I will continue to use Opensuse Leap kde, a distribution I have been very pleased with.

[nunyobiznez]

While it may be true that the openSUSE wiki isn't as detailed as the Arch wiki, ...yet, I find that most of the stuff on Arch wiki is applicable to Linux in general, and is usually still very helpful for openSUSE as well, even though it's not the intent. It's not like the info is hidden behind some distro check wall. So it's not really much of an issue in my opinion, just as long as the person reading it has at least enough knowledge to know what information is distro specific.

[sirsuse]

YAST is absolutely my favorite Control Center.

[madmaxa]

What I like about openSUSE is the intel RST raid support out of the box the installer knows how to configure and works without problems.

[waleedJaafar]

my opinion best distributions in this year are OpenSUSE, Manjaro, Fedora because they take different experience and feel in Linux

[benstechroom]

I have come to appreciate the rolling release. I have been running Arch since Sept last year. I only had to reinstall when I got a new machine in Jan. I am still running the same installation from Jan. If I didnt turn my older machine into a distro testing machine, I can guarantee its Arch would still be running as well. What I like is not having to reinstall every 6 months when a major version release comes out.

[neckyrulislam]

Very honest.Hence subscribed.Keep up the good work!

[proshadu]

I'm vere love opensuse & arch linux & freebsd & unix system v 😍

[khalidbinwalid]

12.6k views, 12.5k subs. Noice! So the people who end up in this part of YouTube also end up subscribing.

[XY-tqbu]

I'm only here because I read in the headline "Open Suse"

[ChrisGuiver]

Excellent video, thank you!
(I learnt from it too; you helped 'fill' my brain)

[xDarkWav]

How to get around the cpu load with btrfs maintaince:
sudo btrfs quota disable /
this will remove the maintainence lag for good ;). The problem is that the quota system is causing lag, but if you turn that off it'll run just fine.

[shanedavenport]

Pamac is really useful. I understand most Arch people dislike it but it is a tool that helps.

[thelongslowgoodbye]

What desktop environment are you using for openSUSE?

[rickcontreras]

Thank you for yours kindness I have questions I have a new computer and I built and I’m running tumble weed but with my administration profile every time it boots up it bypasses me logging in and I don’t know why I’ve checked everything in the ass and I didn’t see anything that was turned on to do that

[tell]

Great video Das. I switch to Arch the two days before the BDLL challenge, I was on Peppermint and miss having a rolling release. I did switch to OpenSUSE Tumbleweed but I had a problem and I went to ask it to the community and I couldn’t find their official forum.

But if Arch does go upside down and break then my second choice will be to give OpenSUSE a go again, another reason why I went for Arch because I know it better than OpenSUSE at that time I didn’t have time to relearn something because I was dealing with a hard math class and with work.

But again great video Das 😀

[GertBoers]

I am thinking about building a new PC, completely with the latest AMD components: Ryzen 3rd gen and (one of) the latest GPU. But not on day one.
But when I do, I think I will go the Arch route on that machine. Arcolinux is very much appealing, especially with the tons of videos Erik Dubois is posting. But I might go with the 'proper' install. But I still have time to figure out. ;)