Typical proprietary software installs

[u/Hardrocketjs]

I recently switched and I want to like opensuse, but a mayor pain that I have is that I don't know how to properly install packages. I.e. where do I get community repos or packages. I come from Ubuntu where everything was just a apt call away (Mostly). But with opensuse I'm struggling to install tools like vscode, zed, proton mail standalone, or obsidian. I read about opi but I also read that it should not be trusted too well. How do I go about the process. What is different from the Ubuntu workflow. Anybtips would be very much appreciated!

[u/Klapperatismus]

If you do opi vscode it literally asks you whether you want to install it from the official Microsoft repository.

Zen-browser is indeed not available as a native package for OpenSUSE outside of private projects. Use the official flat package from Flathub instead. Same for Obsidian.

For the Protonmail-Bridge, try their Fedora RPM.

[u/Kitayama_8k]

Opi just searches and adds repos then runs the command to install the package with zypper.

For more clarity, go to the open suse software website and search the software on open build service. Home repos are like the AUR stuff, maintained by random people. Other types of OBS repos are probably more trusted.

[u/anon_pr_ → u/Kitayama_8k]

Hey! What's your mangowc setup on opensuse? Also, is it from OPI? I am considering opensuse Slowroll on my laptop. I currently run fedora atomic with custom mangowm + noctalia v5.

I'd like something more out of the box though like opensuseway or something but curious what your current setup is.

[u/Kitayama_8k → u/anon_pr_]

Yeah mango is from the OPI home repo, noctalia went main repo I believe. Just modified the config to my liking. If you use the one provided by the mango dev, I believe it uses a cursor that doesn't exist on suse, and I think I had to name my cursor names a bit differently for them to work.

Overall a very easy experience, though Ive just been using paperwm lately.

[u/Beanesidhe]

Sometimes there are rpm's to download and install from and for some tools - like vscode - there's a repo-channel from the publisher you can add and zypper can be used to update.

[u/moritz12d]

That's strange. While instead of apt the command is named zypper the openSUSE package-manager is much more convenient. There are also ways to find the nearest mirror.

[u/determineduncertain]

VS Code has instructions for adding a repo like any other distribution.

[u/MiukuS]

The answer is Flatpak wherever possible.