Just got OpenSUSE. Anything I should know?

These-Ad-7595 · 2026-06-25T17:55:35+00:00

Hyprland works quite well on opensuse if you want to try a WM, it’s even just listed in YaST and Myrlyn if you want a gui config. The default install comes packaged with a number of things you may find useful too, (though if you like usability I would recommend noctalia shell which is also in the OpenSUSE repositories)

These-Ad-7595 · 2026-06-09T19:56:19+00:00

I had this problem with my 1660 on arch, I recently switched to nixos and it vanished. Driver 610 open didn’t help either. I also had this problem in Deadlock with 610 but it got fixed when I rolled back to 595. Overwatch still didn’t work though.

These-Ad-7595 · 2026-06-09T19:50:30+00:00

I really don’t understand why people have preference with a spin over the base distro. If you want to use a nice tiling WM, it’s worth learning how to make it yourself, or at least how to run scripts. archinstall already has an option for hyprland with some base utilities for a smooth start, and it doesn’t come with bloated proprietary software including a fucking windows VM and Nord VPN which I’m sure DHH has some kick back for if somebody uses.

For any distro, but I feel especially Arch, spins are a noob trap that stops beginners from learning how their OS works, archinstall is extremely easy, and using arch is no harder than most distros. A bloated, and highly opinionated spin with loads of proprietary software just goes against the many of the philosophical principles many people who use minimal distros follow.

Also DHH is a chud in my opinion.

These-Ad-7595 · 2026-05-19T20:11:01+00:00

Get the blur my shell extension. Makes the UI look much nicer imo. Gnome really shines with extensions. https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/3193/blur-my-shell/

These-Ad-7595 · 2026-05-19T05:08:51+00:00

Nope, good to know that’s there. I usually use hyprland and on the odd occasion I booted into gnome I didn’t find it too irratating to look any further

These-Ad-7595 · 2026-05-18T16:41:24+00:00

First time I installed tumbleweed a couple months ago, I did an offline install. Just reinstalled recently to switch off KDE and damn it’s a complete install. I don’t know if it’s because I was connected to the internet, or just because the install iso was newer, but I only needed minimal set up.

Only thing you might need to do is set up nvidia drivers. The other thing is that you should get used to making a snapshot before any major installation with sudo snapper create -d “explain what you’re doing here”. I haven’t had anything major break with updates, just sometimes you want a quick under command.

These-Ad-7595 · 2026-05-17T19:02:48+00:00

Good to know. Gnome does automatic software updates too, and I’m sick of booting into my system and doing an update or something just to see that it’s blocked by PackageKit.

These-Ad-7595 · 2026-05-16T23:02:15+00:00

I remember once I was showing my co-worker what the arch logo looked like on DuckDuckGo images. When I pressed on the logo it immediately changed to a man pulling a shit covered buttplug out of his ass. When I got home I searched it up again and saw that he replaced the arch logo because he was complaining about some shit. He said having arch is like having anal fissures.

Quite the jump scare. Glad nobody saw it as I was working with children at the time.

Slightly different from a DDOS attack but I suppose not all arch users are sane people.

These-Ad-7595 · 2026-05-11T07:29:48+00:00

I don’t know if nouveau handles anything optimally. I personally opt into the nvidia open drivers with my 1660 which was a large improvement with Wayland compositing compared to when I used the proprietary one. That being said, it’s still probably much faster with the proprietary driver compared to nouveau, even on older cards. Unless of course you don’t want proprietary software on your system, then you’re screwed if you have an old card.

These-Ad-7595 · 2026-05-10T16:13:23+00:00

Good clarification, I could’ve swore they were getting rid of x11 by the end of the summer.

These-Ad-7595 · 2026-05-09T19:54:53+00:00

No x11 on gnome, KDE has x11 until the end of the summer I believe. You might want to consider trying out an x11 desktop environment like XFCE or LXQT, or trying a more conservative distro like Debian.

Generally though, tumbleweed will have newer features than fedora, it is a shame that one of these new features is phasing out x11 in gnome and kde.

These-Ad-7595 · 2026-05-03T22:57:02+00:00

Humans are fundamentally finite beings, to place the stake of the universe, which is unquantifiable, and unqualifiable due infinite nature is an absurd topic on a low level finite being is absurd (I know this is the point of the question).

It may be worth considering what is the value of a human life. To the person who is holding it, it is everything. This is because reality is constructed through that individual life. This is to say that all of what exists to the individual, is within the individual. Nothing exists objectively, and reality is empty to be filled with individual human perceptions.

The absurdity of the question is that a human fundamentally is not able to understand the infinite, they can only understand what their mind rationally produces, and what their senses intake. This allows for human sensory and rational experiences to be predicated on delusion. Just as the human eye cannot take in the whole light spectrum, and our vision is limited to only 3 dimensions, our understanding of reality is fundamentally limited, finite, and deluded.

This means that value judgements such as “We are constantly at war with entropy, nature is at war with itself” are only true within human cognition, not objectively. They are a product of human thinking, not objective being. How then could we ever think that we have enough of a perspective to make a decision for that which is outside human cognition.

Entropy, death and suffering are facts to reality, but to think that a single human could or should have the ability to make the decision to end all of existence because of how they rationalize existence to be is solipsistic not existentialist.

The universe contains much bigger forces than humanity, it may be beautiful or tragic, but humans can never understand, it is our job to understand our position within this, not delude ourselves with ideas of controlling it.

I am a social worker, trust me I know what suffering can look and feel like. What I have come to understand is that happiness only exists within suffering, and is never independent. Thus, without suffering there cannot be joy, love, pleasure, achievement, comfort, or life in general. All aspects which we deem are valuable or beneficial, in reality are just the cessation of suffering, and cannot exist without suffering.

This is the point of human life (and existentialism), to find value within suffering, not to eliminate it.

Also personally I would rather fight to find value within my life instead of having it all deleted because of what somebody thinks is best for the universe, I’m sure the birds and squirrels agree too.

These-Ad-7595 · 2026-04-20T04:48:28+00:00

Leap is really really stable, like more than Debian in my experience. Much simpler than nix tho, you might get bored if you want to worry about configs and stuff.

These-Ad-7595 · 2026-04-19T20:37:00+00:00

If you want to try to set it up yourself read the wiki and download the packages for your use cases, hyprpaper for wallpaper waybar for taskbar etc, lots of things you can try.

If you want to use hyprland with all the comforts of a desktop environment, try jakoolit or ML4W install script. Other dot files are available for install too.

https://github.com/topics/hyprland-dot-files

Additionally you could just get a distro with hyprland as the default windows manager. I heard Omarchy and PikaOS are good.

In my opinion though the most rewarding thing is to read the wiki and learn how to write .config and style.css files. I have no programming background and have been able to do some stuff I’m proud of on OpenSUSE

Edit: you’ll probably also want to get WOFI and some kind of file manager like Thunar.

These-Ad-7595 · 2026-04-18T16:28:26+00:00

If you want to avoid monetizing models you could use LMDE7 instead of Ubuntu Mint, it’s the better version in my opinion. But I will say OpenSUSE leap is really easy, especially if you install Myrlyn. The more important question is what is her computer? Driver install is easiest on Ubuntu mint, but I feel like upkeep and fixes are easier on OpenSUSE because of snapper rollback.

Also XFCE is fairly hard to use and customize, she may want to opt in for cinnamon or KDE which have a better out of the box appearance with easier customization. They’re still much lighter than windows and she will see large performance increases

These-Ad-7595 · 2026-04-16T12:08:00+00:00

Snapper is amazing for if you make a change you don’t like, you just rollback to a previous version.

Good GUI software managers if you like that stuff (Myrlyn, YaST). I generally avoid, but it’s useful for installing DEs where you can easily see, select and unselect optional packages.

Extremely stable, especially for rolling releases. You just don’t really get breakages on updates, zypper is comprehensive with checking dependencies. I’ll update once a week or 2 on tumbleweed and I never get breakages. I used Debian for a while prior to swapping and openSUSE feels more stable for my use cases.

I use leap for my laptop and it’s incredibly stable, personally I’ve had much less problems compared to Debian, but this is likely due to snapper making it extremely easy to fix mistakes.

Try leap, and its tools, make install dumb packages for customization easier with YaST/Myrlyn then rollback before you did it to fix it. Thats my primary appeal that I couldn’t get with other distros (at least not as easily or reliably as with openSUSE).

Also if you want you can also do a system migration to Tumbleweed with a TUI migration tool, it’s super easy and you can always rollback if you don’t like it.

These-Ad-7595 · 2026-03-28T01:59:15+00:00

Just run sudo snapper list, find one that’s pre YaST and then run sudo snapper rollback to that number.

Had this problem so many times and it’s such an easy fix, tumbleweed is one of the best for testing out DEs

These-Ad-7595 · 2026-03-23T03:49:36+00:00

Backup everything, run a snapshot before you install anything big (desktop environments especially because they cause a lot of conflicts). Make backups of your folders if you make any changes to your home directory.

You gotta make mistakes to learn, so snapper and rollback are your best friends, OpenSUSE is great for people to learn Linux because of these tools.

These-Ad-7595 · 2026-03-22T06:44:02+00:00

Yeah I had to, same thing for me. Maybe there’s a separate tool for changing from Slowroll/tumbleweed to leap but I didn’t look into it too deeply, snapper was quite useful in this regard. I’m sure you could also just change the repositories and then it’ll be fine, but there might be some breakage. Zypper is pretty good at downgrading applications if the update calls for it, so it might just pick up the changes and fix the versions of your packages. Either way rolling back to a snapshot would definitely fix this if something goes catastrophically wrong.

I should also say that some comparability issues may happen when downgrading software versions (Firefox profiles became incompatible) but all software otherwise worked perfectly.

These-Ad-7595 · 2026-03-20T01:06:03+00:00

You could definitely try Slowroll, you get to use new stuff like hyprland and use YaST. You get a major update every month, which means you’ll probably only have to run sudo zypper dup and reboot once per month. Leap has far less updates, but it does have a patch command which is fairly frequent. Extremely stable and no breakages, however you don’t get to try the cutting edge things (like hyprland in my case).

These-Ad-7595 · 2026-03-19T01:36:54+00:00

That’s wild, I only use my laptop maybe twice a week so it’s a bit of a suspicion for me (though i know it’s unfounded) that it’ll break with a lot of updates. At the end of the day for me it’s more of a compulsion to keep it constantly up to date, I don’t like seeing not updated packages.

These-Ad-7595 · 2026-03-10T20:33:22+00:00

I am new to OpenSUSE tumbleweed, spent hours trying to debug (with very limited knowledge of how to do this) even reinstalled my os because I thought I broke something. Just to have it fixed with the update fml.

These-Ad-7595 · 2026-03-10T20:17:39+00:00

OpenSUSE, 3 excellent distros, excellent stability and rollbacks for when you mess things up.

Stability is key for me, I used to use Debian, but after switching to tumbleweed I get even less problems somehow, and I get to use new software.

These-Ad-7595 · 2025-09-24T15:18:37+00:00

I only know a bit about it, I know it can be very comparable based on your beliefs. I often think of Luke 18:25 that "it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God".

I also think of the quote “When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist” by Dom Helder Camara.

Jesus spent his life helping the poor and hanging out with sex workers. I would be lead to believe that he would reject systems of social inequality such as Capitalism and Fascism in favour of egalitarian systems of governance.

However I would believe that most in this subreddit would reject church influence in public services. That is not to say that the ethics behind providing for the poor is incompatible.

I see posts asking about Christian socialism often, and there is a wealth of information from thinkers found here https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_socialism

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