openSUSE Tumbleweed Minimal Installation with KDE Plasma, codecs, AMD VA-API HW Accel, ZRAM.
This is my way to do a minimal installation of openSUSE Tumbleweed with KDE Plasma as desktop environment.
The video shows how to lock some packages that you don't want to be reinstalled by zypper every update, and you can unmark any package patterns that you don't want to be included in the installation.
Additionally, this includes a configuration to use SUDO only for members of the WHEEL group, the SELinux targeted policy for a gaming setup, ZRAM configuration/tuning and the optional proprietary codecs to enable HW acceleration on AMD GPUs. But you can skip the codecs step if you feel comfortable with flatpak apps since they already include it.
Commands used in this video:
sudo usermod -aG wheel $USER
newgrp wheel
sudo visudo
sudo systemctl enable --now zramswap.service
cat /proc/swaps
sudo vim /etc/sysctl.d/99-zram.conf
sudo sysctl -p /etc/sysctl.d/*
sudo opi codecs
ZRAM configuration source:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Zram...
If you want a setup for gaming, I recommend the following video by LinuxNext to complement your fresh minimal installation:
• OpenSUSE Tumbleweed Gaming Install Guide!
Music used in this video:
• 3 AM Linux Terminal Lofi [Deep Focus]
Download openSUSE Tumbleweed here:
https://get.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/#...
Snapshot ISO used:
openSUSE-Tumbleweed-DVD-x86_64-Snapshot20260126-Media.iso
Made with ❤️ in Kdenlive.
Timestamps:
00:00 - Booting ISO
00:21 - License Agreement, Language, Keyboard configuration
00:34 - Repository configuration
00:48 - Selecting the system role
00:56 - Setting up the partition scheme
01:21 - Timezone configuration
01:33 - User configuration
02:00 - Bootloader configuration
02:19 - System security configuration
02:27 - System network configuration
02:55 - Packages / Patterns selection
07:45 - Finishing installation
08:24 - First boot
08:35 - Selecting plasma wayland session
09:10 - Checking sound and installed software
09:41- Removing unnessesary menu shortcuts
10:15 - Adding user to the wheel group
10:40 - Configuring SUDO only for wheel group members
11:29 - Configuring ZRAM
13:20 - (Optional) Installing additional codecs, AMD HW Acceleration
15:14 - System reboot
16:00 - Installing VLC from flatpak (No password needed)
16:50 - The End