Great job and thank you for making this. I daily drive OpenSUSE and I'm a big fan. One thing that made it exponentially better was adding the KDE Frameworks and Qt 5 repos from OpenSUSE's website, allow vendor change and update like you normally would. The latest Plasma desktop makes this distro much better. Basically a DIY version of their Argon build of Leap.
Oh interesting! I'll have to try that out sometime - I usually try to stick with a distro's official release versions, so it didn't occur to me to look for a newer KDE version lol.
@@BitGoblin Could be a neat video idea for you in the future if you did a tutorial on how to do it. The LTS version of Plasma that Leap ships with is ancient by today's standard and updating it changes the whole experience.
That's not a bad idea, thanks! It'd be a quick little tutorial, and I could even spin it for more than just KDE (like the NVIDIA drivers, latest Firefox, etc)
I've been using OPENSUSE for over a decade as my daily driver on several systems. 2 of them act as storage servers, primary and backup. One of the things I really like about it is being able to do a version upgrade from the command line. I can download the software first and then have it do the upgrade. I've had issues with the normal download/install per package. I haven't had any major issues in a LONG time. I remember when my favorite version of OPENSUSE was 12.3. I had a system that was still running up until a few months ago when the power supply died. Just haven't gotten around to replacing it yet.
I love to see that! I remember first diving into OpenSUSE with version 12.3 way back when I was in college - man how time flies. Even though it's not my favorite, it really is a solid OS.
Yeah I love Leap even if I don't use it haha. It's been good for me when I have used it. But I'm curious where the project is going with this whole move to ALP and stuff, and sounds like Leap might be no more after 15.x
I just installed opensuse tumbleweed on my system using an nvidia gtx 1070ti/ryzen7 5800x/32gb and I was shocked at how well it actually works with steam and steamvr. A number of my games work better than on windows in steam/proton.
Tumbleweed is pretty slick, the more updated software compared to Leap is great for gaming and such. And that's pretty funny 😂 gotta love how some games running in proton do better than windows lol
Really depends on the game. I haven't played much cyberpunk to notice it, but I have noticed some older games running better/more smoothly on Linux through Proton than Windows
Great video!. You must be a android or something, cos most people find the YaST installer confusing or overwhelming :) It do give you massively control over what's going on if you drive in to it (Almost the same as a Arch install). KDE use to be their main desktop now not so much. back in the day they use to spend a lot of time in refining the KDE desktop, now it's more shared between the desktops. So if you chose Xfce, KDE or gnome, you will have a great old time with the distro :)
Lol I'm definitely not an android ;) but I am a bit of "function over form" person so maybe that's why I appreciate YaST. It is a bit overwhelming like how KDE's settings used to be, but it does work well. I didn't realize that KDE wasn't their main focus on the desktop anymore, so thanks for the heads up :) my intent wasn't to come across like using GNOME of XFCE or whatever would lead to a worse experience, just that if KDE was their focus then that would likely be the most coherent experience. All desktops seem to be decent in OpenSUSE
@@grahamclark4518 If you search for it in the software center, there is all the YaST plugins you can dream of :) It don't install the mall by default :)
10:51 Bro, mouse cursor changing the size is commonly seen functionality with Mac M1 also... I would say that it's functionality and not an hanging issue... Thanks!
Just installed 15.3 working fine. The KDE is a bit dated though, but 15.4 will be out in a few months. Tumbleweed didn't boot for me. I try downloading the image again. Kubuntu 22.04 was bit buggy at the moment.
That's the opposite of my experiences lol. Personally, I've had more issues with Opensuse 15.3 than I do with Ubuntu 22.04. 😬 but I think that's mostly due to the older 5.3 kernel that's in opensuse and the hardware on my desktop is newer (Ryzen 5800X processor) that's likely causing the problems.
@@BitGoblin Correction re-done the Tumbleweed iso again and it booted, the iso must have been currupted, it's working fine. I'll try downloading Kubuntu 22.04 again.
excuse me , i'm a new user and i really want to try suse, but when i install this distro i have a problem where, when i choose the install option from the boot menu, my suse stuck on loading black screen and there's writing in the middle, "loading basics driver" and this process is never complete, please help I use tumbleweed suse
What hardware are you running? Are you using an NVIDIA or AMD GPU or have some other PCIe cards installed? If you haven't already, I would try redownloading and recreating the installation media. I've had some bootable USBs not work for seemingly no reason, and recreating them with a fresh download of the ISO made it work.
@@BitGoblin I'm new to OpenSuse. It is 15.3 Leap. It consists shell command but it opens the file with temporary name in the tmp directory and sometimes it doesn't save the original file. However, in Kubuntu 20.04 it opens the file and on saving the root password prompt to enter it before save.
funny how every one says sussa in my language we say it like "suze" since a S between vowels reads like a z and not like 2 ss.... must be an american thing ahah
Great review! I have also been pleasantly surprised by OpenSUSE, I'm using the Tumbleweed version though... Thanks for sharing!
Thanks :D Tumbleweed is pretty solid, I just prefer distros with fixed releases, and you're welcome!
Great Video and interesting. Greetings from Germany.
Hello there! I'm glad you liked the video :)
Great job and thank you for making this. I daily drive OpenSUSE and I'm a big fan. One thing that made it exponentially better was adding the KDE Frameworks and Qt 5 repos from OpenSUSE's website, allow vendor change and update like you normally would. The latest Plasma desktop makes this distro much better. Basically a DIY version of their Argon build of Leap.
Oh interesting! I'll have to try that out sometime - I usually try to stick with a distro's official release versions, so it didn't occur to me to look for a newer KDE version lol.
@@BitGoblin Could be a neat video idea for you in the future if you did a tutorial on how to do it. The LTS version of Plasma that Leap ships with is ancient by today's standard and updating it changes the whole experience.
That's not a bad idea, thanks! It'd be a quick little tutorial, and I could even spin it for more than just KDE (like the NVIDIA drivers, latest Firefox, etc)
Great video!.
Thank you!
I've been using OPENSUSE for over a decade as my daily driver on several systems. 2 of them act as storage servers, primary and backup. One of the things I really like about it is being able to do a version upgrade from the command line. I can download the software first and then have it do the upgrade. I've had issues with the normal download/install per package. I haven't had any major issues in a LONG time. I remember when my favorite version of OPENSUSE was 12.3. I had a system that was still running up until a few months ago when the power supply died. Just haven't gotten around to replacing it yet.
I love to see that! I remember first diving into OpenSUSE with version 12.3 way back when I was in college - man how time flies. Even though it's not my favorite, it really is a solid OS.
Open Suse Leap Is Very Solid is the"Debian of rpm packs"
Yeah I love Leap even if I don't use it haha. It's been good for me when I have used it. But I'm curious where the project is going with this whole move to ALP and stuff, and sounds like Leap might be no more after 15.x
I just installed opensuse tumbleweed on my system using an nvidia gtx 1070ti/ryzen7 5800x/32gb and I was shocked at how well it actually works with steam and steamvr. A number of my games work better than on windows in steam/proton.
Tumbleweed is pretty slick, the more updated software compared to Leap is great for gaming and such.
And that's pretty funny 😂 gotta love how some games running in proton do better than windows lol
@@BitGoblin oh yeah? So, I can run cyberpunk 2077 with 4K and have higher fps than in windows?…… delusional?
@@r2com641 look at benchmarks on UA-cam or something.
@@alphabennyrosy5068 “or something” you dummy bozo
Really depends on the game. I haven't played much cyberpunk to notice it, but I have noticed some older games running better/more smoothly on Linux through Proton than Windows
I love Opensuse. Since I like my Steam games though I tend to migrate towards Tumbleweed.
Yeah I think a lot of the issues I had would've been solved by using Tumbleweed. In particular my issue with games not launching on my desktop
Great video!. You must be a android or something, cos most people find the YaST installer confusing or overwhelming :) It do give you massively control over what's going on if you drive in to it (Almost the same as a Arch install).
KDE use to be their main desktop now not so much. back in the day they use to spend a lot of time in refining the KDE desktop, now it's more shared between the desktops. So if you chose Xfce, KDE or gnome, you will have a great old time with the distro :)
Lol I'm definitely not an android ;) but I am a bit of "function over form" person so maybe that's why I appreciate YaST. It is a bit overwhelming like how KDE's settings used to be, but it does work well.
I didn't realize that KDE wasn't their main focus on the desktop anymore, so thanks for the heads up :) my intent wasn't to come across like using GNOME of XFCE or whatever would lead to a worse experience, just that if KDE was their focus then that would likely be the most coherent experience. All desktops seem to be decent in OpenSUSE
the windows domain membership was missing from my Yast control panel.. i couldn't solve it
@@grahamclark4518 If you search for it in the software center, there is all the YaST plugins you can dream of :) It don't install the mall by default :)
10:51 Bro, mouse cursor changing the size is commonly seen functionality with Mac M1 also... I would say that it's functionality and not an hanging issue... Thanks!
Just installed 15.3 working fine. The KDE is a bit dated though, but 15.4 will be out in a few months. Tumbleweed didn't boot for me. I try downloading the image again. Kubuntu 22.04 was bit buggy at the moment.
That's the opposite of my experiences lol. Personally, I've had more issues with Opensuse 15.3 than I do with Ubuntu 22.04. 😬 but I think that's mostly due to the older 5.3 kernel that's in opensuse and the hardware on my desktop is newer (Ryzen 5800X processor) that's likely causing the problems.
@@BitGoblin Correction re-done the Tumbleweed iso again and it booted, the iso must have been currupted, it's working fine. I'll try downloading Kubuntu 22.04 again.
That's good! Sometimes those ISO downloads can be wonky, but I'm glad to hear you got it running now
excuse me , i'm a new user and i really want to try suse, but when i install this distro i have a problem where, when i choose the install option from the boot menu, my suse stuck on loading black screen and there's writing in the middle, "loading basics driver" and this process is never complete, please help
I use tumbleweed suse
What hardware are you running? Are you using an NVIDIA or AMD GPU or have some other PCIe cards installed?
If you haven't already, I would try redownloading and recreating the installation media. I've had some bootable USBs not work for seemingly no reason, and recreating them with a fresh download of the ISO made it work.
I could not easily use Kate to edit root files in OpenSuse. In Kubuntu this is done very easy out of the box.
Hmm interesting, I've never done this before. How do you normally set that up?
@@BitGoblin I'm new to OpenSuse. It is 15.3 Leap. It consists shell command but it opens the file with temporary name in the tmp directory and sometimes it doesn't save the original file. However, in Kubuntu 20.04 it opens the file and on saving the root password prompt to enter it before save.
you need to open kate/kwrite as root either with sudo or kdesu.. so basiclly if ya want to edit fstab do this "kdesu kate /etc/fstab" or any file
funny how every one says sussa in my language we say it like "suze" since a S between vowels reads like a z and not like 2 ss.... must be an american thing ahah
Yeah, it seems like no one knows how to pronounce it properly haha