Why I Love openSUSE

Today I talk about why I chose openSUSE and why I think it is my "best distro."
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0:00 Intro
1:15 Default Btrfs Setup is Awesome
3:22 A Stable Rolling Release
6:46 Package Availability
10:33 The Community Rocks!
12:38 More Words on Stability and Trying openSUSE
16:42 Wrapping Up

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[F_Around_and_find_out]

What openSUSE champions over any other distro is visualization. YasT shows you everything: packages, repos, incoming updates. Not only that makes openSUSE unique but also noob friendly: if you can update windows or mac, you will find openSUSE right at home.

[murilokomoda]

I'm convinced, here we hop again

[OraOraOra]

16:34 LOL
Finally some love for openSUSE. Every openSUSE User knows deep in their heart, that Tumbleweed is one of the best Distros, but the community is usually very quiet about it and even recommends other Distros. It's the most anti elitism Distro I know.
Most of the YouTubers are "The Face of Arch Linux"

[PedroRosado]

Switched to Tumbleweed about 7 years ago and have not looked back.

[Nyarkfunky]

Thank you for your work.
I switched to Opensuse Tumbleweed thanks to your videos. And I think the Chameleon totally won me over. Snapper, Yast, Zypper I love everything about this lizard.
Thx You. 🐧🦎🐧

[nunyobiznez]

If someone really wants the absolute bleeding edge, with the latest software releases for openSUSE, there is 'openSUSE Factory'. However, Tumbleweed is usually new enough for most users, and TW is stable precisely because it does get the benefit of testing from Factory. But, openSUSE has 4 different major release versions now, to accommodate the needs of every user. 'Leap' focuses on rock solid stability and shares packages with SUSE Linux Enterprise. Then there's 'Slowroll' now as well, the recently added slow rolling release, that rolls about every 2-3 months, which offers a kind of middle ground between Tumbleweed and Leap.

[pldcanfly]

I'm so happy this distro gets more time in the spotlight. I can agree with everything you said. It's rolling but stable, and even if it wasn't that ONE time... snapper is there to save you, no matter what. Every time I try something different (recently nix), I just come back to Tumbleweed and it feels like coming home. And the home feels like a comfy log cabin, snow slowly falling down in front of the windows, and you're sitting there with a nice warm cup of hot chocolate, besides a warm fire, wrapped up in the most fluffy blanket.

[Nerdamania]

Opensuse actually has a testing environment to test the packages. Manjaro doesn’t. They just hold packages back in order to see if there was any major issue with arch with an update. I think the opensuse approach can be taken more seriously

[RobertLogic]

My first distro was SuSE 6.1 on a K6-200 back in the late 90's.

[tohur]

The reason Opensuse updates are so large is because unlike other rolling releases they rebuild all dependencies that an updated package uses .. which is great because sometimes all associated packages should be rebuilt.. this HEAVILY lends to Opensuses stability and one the main reasons things break over time in Arch because they update a package and toss it out and the dependencies don't get an update til they get a version update which is what tends to cause things to break in Arch.. TBH Arch needs to change their mentality to be more like Opensuse in this regard

[nunyobiznez]

Before the 'obs' existed, there was 'Packman', which is still a fantastic community repo for openSUSE to this very day, which new users don't always know about. So, I'm surprised it didn't even get a mention here. It definitely deserves a mention, at the very least, to help new users.

[JureRepinc]

OpenSUSE Tumbleweed with KDE Plasma desktop is also my favourite OS+DE combo of all times. Really great job on making a very stable rolling release distro, since their packages go through basic QA before reaching users. And yes if by any chance anything goes wrong there is awesome BTRFS snapsots integration. Really great job!

[TrustJesusToday]

New Linux user (since June}. Tumbleweed with Hyprland and Plasma on notebook and desktop. It's an awesome experience. I tend to go to Hyprland by default, but Plasma is a fine DE. Thanks for beating the Tumbleweed drum.

[haakon_b]

I bought a copy of Suse with a nice Case and a printed manual back in the 90s. Good old days…

[sergiovelasquezzeballos]

Thank you, I'm opensuser. I still play around with void and artix, but Tumbleweed is my fast solid home.

[nomadic_shadow]

I installed opensuse recently and I gotta say... I love yaml files. I really like the way they do package management. They have actual installers and its so damn refreshing to see that done so well on linux.

[izuichikitahara]

It's funny saying that Arch is the wild west, because Arch people were going feral these last week as Plasma 6 didn't drop as an update for around a week. There were people going as far as switching to Testing just because they couldn't wait (and then Plasma 6 shipped itself with broken session buttons on its main menu, but then again this is just a regular day).

[youptralala]

Installed Tumbleweed more than 5 years on my everyday work laptop (a Thinkpad). It has been rolling ever since and still incredible.

[hollnagelc]

I’ve been on Tumbleweed for about 6 months now. It took me a few days to get it setup like I wanted. I’m using it for home desktop on and media server for plex / jellyfin. 13th gen i7 and two gpu’s. Nvidia P2000 and a RX6700. All working great for what I want. The P2000 covers the transcoding for videos and the RX6700 covers my gaming needs.

Can honestly say I’m very pleased with this setup and can’t see any reason for hopping to another one now. Wanted to try a “stable” rolling release and I think I found a perfect fit for my main home desktop.

[purian]

I think you're trending along the lines of some other YouTube Linux guys. Arch is the best, some months later.. I finally left Arch, fedora is the best, never switching. Some months later, now Open Suse, it's the best..

You're just distro hopping like many of us. Nothing wrong with that. But it's tough to keep users trust when you are looking to build a user base. I would suggest you keep a solid foundation and build upon it. As someone who's watched a few of your videos now, I'm pretty sure you'll be switching again with the same words here shortly. It's the look you're putting out there.