Hello Folks,
I just installed Mate on a Lenovo n22 Winbook. So far it is working very well with its 4 GB of RAM, 64 GB storage and Intel® Celeron(R) CPU N3050.
My question is that if I were to do a one click install, which would I choose the KDE or the Gnome option…or perhaps neither.
Thanks for your help!
Others may answer differently, but what I do is open up YaST Software Management and inspect the Patterns that are installed.
It’ll tell you whether you have a Gnome-based (most likely) or a KDE-based base system, then I install the Multimedia Package appropriate for that base system.
I haven’t looked deeper, but I’ve always assumed that the above should support all default installed apps… But if you install an app from the other base system then I’d guess that app might have problems and need the other Multimedia package…
TSU
Thank you TSU.
Checked YaST as you said and I see a GNOME base.
I will go for the GNOME option!
I will post back if I have any trouble.
I have a simpler answer (this is what I do and it’s desktop independent)
don’t use 1 click install but manually add packman and pull the multimedia packages needed
zypper ar -f ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/packman/suse/openSUSE_Leap_42.2/ packman
zypper dup --from packman
zypper in vlc vlc-codecs libxine2 libxine2-codecs
if you want flash player install it (it will get pulled from packman and auto updated)
for Firefox and SeaMonkey
zypper in flash-player
for Chromium Opera Vivaldi (possibly Chrome as it seams google doesn’t bundle flash any more)
zypper in flash-player-ppapi
you could also install “recommended packages” this should pull flash and a few other
zypper inr
ps. you can use copy/paste in a terminal