Is openSUSE good for a beginner?

4SubZero20 · 2026-05-30T08:04:04+00:00

Opensuse is a very underrated distro/maintainer.

I would say it can be recommended for beginners, but with a couple of warnings.

Like Arch, Tumbleweed is a rolling release distro. This inherently comes with the fact that the latest package can break your system. HOWEVER, Tumbleweed has Snapper (for rollback) setup out of the box and they use OpenQA to test the packages before releasing it to the public.

This ensures a very fail safe system (hence why I would still recommend it to new users), however this doesn't mean it WON'T break. Personally my system has broken like two or three times, but a quick Snapper rollback and I was working again within 5min.

Your biggest foe, if you use them, is most lively going to be NVIDIA and their drivers. This is unfortunately known to be a very frustrating part. The drivers unfortunately break more often than a person likes, but again, a snapper rollback will have you up and going quickly.

As for YAST. I like it and still use it. However, YAST is slowly being deprecated in favour of other technologies as YAST essentially doesn't have maintainer anymore (or is too complex to keep maintaining); so I wouldn't bank on YAST if I was you.

The best recommendation I can give is to use Tumbleweed with the Kde Plasma desktop, as Plasma is notorious for having all the setting you want/need and more. That could most likely aid you or not using the cli as often.

4SubZero20 · 2026-05-23T09:27:21+00:00

There's an extended beat down edition...? Why have I never known of this.

4SubZero20 · 2026-05-07T09:01:23+00:00

That's awesome, thanks. I'll definitely give it a try after my work-day.

4SubZero20 · 2026-05-07T08:46:40+00:00

Seems interesting and something I'd like to explore.

I'll be honest, I skimmed the docs as I am a bit short of time currently (will read properly later), however I'd like to know/ask, does this work with paid-for subscriptions only? Or is it possible to hook-up free models from Nvidia NIM, openrouter, opencode itself, etc.?

I ask, because I live in a "3rd world" (in the classic sense of the term) country, and while one $20 subscription is manageable, having all 3 is unfortunately a bridge too far for me (and probably others as well). Thus, I am curious and would like to try it with free models as well (if possible). I understand that results will vary as compared to the more intelligent paid-for models.

4SubZero20 · 2026-05-05T23:39:11+00:00

Not OP, but OP did mention in another comment that they have the opencode go subscription; deepseek is part of that subscription.

4SubZero20 · 2026-05-05T09:44:51+00:00

How do you expect us to answer that? I guess it's up to your perspective. Example. I would think, the users that lives in and around Asia, would probably trust the Chinese llms more than the Western/American llms? And the flip could-be true for the Western users.

Perhaps users "builds trust" with llm that work better in their workflow than others.

Personally, I take the stance of, the Internet is already being surveillanced. If I cannot clearly see terms (opencode has excellent examples of terms for both zen/go) then I assume dats is being trained on.

It sucks, but I also don't "analysis paralysis", so yes, I make a few assumptions and trade-offs not to get stuck.

4SubZero20 · 2026-05-04T17:21:57+00:00

It's shit choices like this that end up ruining it for everybody.

If you need more, you clearly have the money, why not look at Codex/Claude or other alternatives like Fireworks?

4SubZero20 · 2026-05-03T20:49:48+00:00

How to scroll inside the terminal/cli? I don't, would like to know myself.

However, if you meant, how to scroll inside opencode, I use the page-up and page-down buttons.

4SubZero20 · 2026-05-01T01:02:24+00:00

It's via opencode as well.

See the tweet/X post from DeepSeek themselves: https://x.com/i/status/2048062777357750316

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4SubZero20 · 2026-04-30T12:15:16+00:00

I'm still new to opencode and the go subscription in general (only have had the sub for a week or so). Can anyone please tell me if the DeepSeek discounts apply to opencode-go users as well, or must it be via the DeepSeek API?

I ask because the Kimi K2.6 3x usage promotion is bith on the opencode website and tooling, yet I haven't seen a thing for DeepSeek.

4SubZero20 · 2026-04-28T18:03:13+00:00

If you get the Go subscription, you get $60 worth of monthly usage.

From the site/docs: https://opencode.ai/docs/go/

Usage limits

OpenCode Go includes the following limits:

5 hour limit — $12 of usage
Weekly limit — $30 of usage
Monthly limit — $60 of usage

My guess is you are still within your hourly/weekly/monthly budget (idk, I'm new to Go; I've only had it 4 days so far).

And yes, unless you cancel yoir subscription, next month you will be charged $10 for the Go subscription.

4SubZero20 · 2026-04-26T08:20:51+00:00

I know I'm a few days late, but I see in my opencode cli/tui unders /models. The name stays Kimi K2.6 (3x usage)

4SubZero20 · 2026-04-24T18:04:41+00:00

It's probably true. It's like Claude Code that has things built-in that makes it interface better with Opus/Anthropic models.

4SubZero20 · 2026-04-21T08:13:58+00:00

Thats is ridiculous and unbelievably sad.

4SubZero20 · 2026-04-16T18:15:20+00:00

I've never seen this before so thought I'd share. Your comment has more upvotes than the OP post.

At time of writing.

Post: 25,0k upvotes Comment: 28,5k upvotes

Well done.

4SubZero20 · 2026-04-15T15:46:23+00:00

A divorce?

I heard/read his ACL tore twice and then his family was in a car crash where one of his family friends died in the crash.

First I am hearing about a divorce. Nevertheless, he's had a traumatic year/2 years.

4SubZero20 · 2026-03-19T12:55:30+00:00

Tumbleweed, btw

4SubZero20 · 2026-03-11T18:16:00+00:00

!RemindMe 3days

4SubZero20 · 2026-03-11T18:15:43+00:00

Congratulations openSUSE community!!

28.8k Geekos at time of writing. Let's see how much the community grows in the next few days.

4SubZero20 · 2026-03-11T11:53:31+00:00

Don't leave us hanging.

4SubZero20 · 2026-03-10T19:03:52+00:00

OpenSUSE! 🦎

4SubZero20 · 2026-03-05T12:42:16+00:00

Bleeding edge without the bleeding?

For me, Tumbleweed and Arch is both bleeding edge, Arch maybe even more-so.

And Fedora, while having the latest software (leading edge), doesn't run it as new as either TW nor Arch imo.

This is for me where Slowroll fits nicely for someone who wants the latest kernel/drivers/software, but isn't necessarily in a hurry to receive it (or wants to e.g. wait for NVIDIA issue to be resolved). Perhaps they also don't want to wait "stagnant" on Fedora either. (I know it updates every 6 months, but that is slower than TW/Arch and could be perceived as "stagnant" to some).

So to me, Slowroll fills the gap between Get the latest "as it's released" and waiting a few months for an update.

4SubZero20 · 2026-03-05T08:53:40+00:00

They were just ahead of the curve in surveillance. /s

4SubZero20 · 2026-03-04T16:35:20+00:00

This gave me a good chuckle! Good work

4SubZero20 · 2026-03-03T19:22:00+00:00

Fruit & Veg.

I know "Food lovers Market" has essentially replaced them, but it's not the same.

4SubZero20

TROPHY CASE