The OpenSUSE Install

It has been years since I've installed OpenSUSE. Let's try the tumbleweed setup with their Open Build service.
Chapters:
00:00:00 - Why Wipe it out
00:02:41 - Download and Prep Work
00:07:46 - Which Version Rolling or Stable
00:15:39 - The Install Begins
00:18:41 - Custom Partitioning
00:24:33 - Software Selection
00:28:32 - Initial Boot
00:32:31 - Fixing Home Permissions
00:42:38 - Finally the Desktop
01:15:10 - Looking at Yast
01:49:03 - OPI is AMAZING
02:09:37 - Wrapping Up Questions .

[Neumah]

This was a pretty informative video. Being sort of a linux noob it was nice to see the thought process of someone who knows linux and troubleshooting things in real time. That's something I've rarely seen before. 👍

[MaS-chid]

This is so interesting (not having this whatched) - I just installed tumbleweed KDE, no bugs compared to fedora KDE, and the learningcurve is on, thanks for this video for learning

[pamus]

Long time Linux user since 1999.
Tumbleweed is No.1 in my experience.
No. 2 Debian Bookworm.
No. 3 Fedora
No. 4 Nix Os
No. 5 Ubuntu sway.

That being said Nothing comes close to Tumbleweed in having all the good features and benefits of all the other distributions with hard to find the bad ones. So far nothing bad - since 5 years.

[RedSntDK]

Only reason I went with OpenSUSE some 20+ years ago was because I could choose between KDE and Gnome so I could learn about the difference. Kind of glad they've stuck around. Will definitely become my daily driver in the not so distant future.
Also, absolutely nothing wrong with getting good at wiping and reinstalling your system, it's a muscle you gotta train.

[Ltsen]

I run SUSE as my daily driver. I don't really care about customisation anymore so I use their default sway setup and it works great.

[EuroNiceguy]

I moved to OpenSuse Leap more recently myself. I have been using it solid for 2 months, and so far I am happy.

It is funny that you mentioned about moving away from OpenSuse, as I did the same myself. But since coming back, I am very happy with it.

You are right about Yast, I was struggling to use CUPS for the Toshiba e-Studio, but Yast made the printer integration much easier.

Fingers crossed that OpenSuse can keep impressing everyone.

[Bruce.ItsYourPC]

I have installed and configured openSUSE Tumbleweed numerous time. I have never seen such a convoluted mess you have going on here. Absolutely comical.

[mohamadzx]

Thanks for your opensuse tumbleweed installation mr Chris i have always wanted to switch from Fedora after the ibm crisis

[patrickeastman]

man i haven't seen OpenSUSE in over a decade, it was my first distro and made me fall in love with Linux lol, im on Manjaro now, Arch based :D

[thebetamaxman]

Sorry for being late to this video, but one wont have to worry about home permissions if you create a home partition during a linux install you can then install any distro select the home partition as mount but not format, and when setting up the new or second distro user account you select the home folder name as the user all permissions are automatically set. You can even do this with more than one distro or linux install. I had when I was young and given to self torture and exploring linux had a half dozen or so different distros using the same home partition and folder. And windows on a separate drive and shared my mozilla email folder in a fat partition between all distros and windows as well. Needed windows for things that refused to run with wine, such as tax software and my harmony remote setup. Thanks for the video

[NormanF]

If you replace the Tumbleweed repos with Slow Roll, you get a happy medium between stable and bleeding edge. That’s the future of openSUSE after Leap is finally phased out for good. 😊

[jaysbone]

I'm using OpenSuse Tumbleweed now...awesome.

[RobMoerland]

Wiped one of my laptops this week and installed Linux Mint. Just to explore. OpenSUSE is next on the list. It was my daily driver when it was still call SUSE Linux.

[AshlynOrSomethin]

I can't tell what, but something about this video makes me really happy :)

[MrYossarianuk]

Fresh installs are liberating.. I always avoid copying /home as sometimes the configs (~/config/local, etc) in there can conflict with different versions of the software on the new OS.

[sirdee]

I love my Tumbleweed Slowroll, great Video

[ArchLars]

openSUSE has everything you will ever need. They have a stable release, they have a rolling release that's great. They have longevity, a vibrant development team. Honestly, SUSE is so slept on because Linux users don't actually value quality. Hot take, but I honestly think this is true. They value saying "i use arch btw" over that, which is embarrassing tbh.

[riggitywrckd]

About 25 years ago I loved suse, so green so Linux. I liked the lizard a lot as well.

[cheebadigga]

Ideas for next poll: Gentoo vs. Void vs. Solus (if and when they release a new version with the new SerpentOS base) vs. SerpentOS (if a stable version has been released by that time)

LFS was also a great suggestion. Get Yocto or Buildroot and build your own Linux distro. However not really practical for a "moving" system where you have to update packages every now and then, since you'll have to rebuild your whole Linux each time. Although you could write your own package manager, that would be fun lol

[prajyot_utekar]

I would love to see gentoo next so beginners can know something before diving into lfs and then bsd.