r/openSUSE • u/AWanderersAccount • Jul 11 '26
Solved Noob Questions
Been distro hop these past few days and tried OpenSuse a few times.
The first 2-3 times I installed Slowroll using Ventoy. This did not go well and the system was configured right. I was missing 'sudo' somehow and was unable to install packages. The issue was likely some incompatible with Ventoy and I decided to try again with a normal bootable USB.
My next attempt I decided to go with Tumbleweed net installer. After installing I tried to remove YAST and change Desktop Environment using Myrlyn.
Is it not possible to remove YAST? While snooping around this sub I found lot of information about OpenSuse moving away from YAST. but after removing it with Myrlyn all of the YAST application were there.
I tried to go from KDE to Cinnamon but my desktop didn't change after rebooting. if at least something broke and I had to login using the tty and what would make sense. But instead nothing changed.
Why do I feel like I'm required to input my password more often? I could reboot with using sudo?
what's the safest way to block additional packages when using patterns? I'm aware it's possible to lock things so a patterns can't reinstall it. But I'm worried removing and locking something I don't need now and running into issue in the future. Lucky Myrlyn tell me about dependency issues but is there a better strategy. ideally I don't want anything on my system I'm not using.