Just had to reinstall - laptop froze up and wouldn’t reboot.
I used the 7/3 version but with network enabled for updates during install.
240GB SSD, ½GB for /boot/efi and the rest in an LV with 16GB for swap, 80GB for / (plenty of room for snapshots), and the rest for /home. All but /home were reformatted, and I chose btrfs for / expecting snapper to be setup automatically. It wasn’t (and also, neither was openSUSE branding for KDE). Perhaps there was a box to check for snapper setup that I missed, but I don’t remember ever doing so before. I found the instructions for manual setup, but I haven’t pulled the trigger until I could hear from the forum: Is snapper setup presently disabled by design?
IIRC there is a checkbox, which is on by default, but not after manually creating a setup. Again IIRC, I had to check a box in the partitioning summary screen.
If you can reproduce the branding issue, that would deserve a bug report I guess.
I accepted the default btrfs (with re-format) for the root partition, and it’s 80GB. If there was a checkbox, I don’t remember, but I’m sure I took no action on it: If it was there and checked by default, I didn’t un-check it. However, I can start snapper easily enough; I just wanted to know if there was any reason I shouldn’t do so, if there was some problem with snapper that justified disabling its implementation by default (until corrected).
If that’s not the case, I’ll start it. In my opinion, snapper is one of the best reasons to use opensuse.
Branding bug reproducible? I suppose I could install on a virtual machine to find out, but prolly not 'til next weekend.
Branding bug fixed 7/12 version, and I figured out the snapper issue too: That check box is only available in guided setup; choose Expert based on existing partitions and you never get a chance to check it. -GEF