{"id":251699,"date":"2026-05-21T14:07:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T18:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/21\/suse-opensuse-agama-installer-now-warns-for-no-desktop-installs-supports-systemd-boot\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T15:05:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T19:05:08","slug":"suse-opensuse-agama-installer-now-warns-for-no-desktop-installs-supports-systemd-boot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/21\/suse-opensuse-agama-installer-now-warns-for-no-desktop-installs-supports-systemd-boot\/","title":{"rendered":"SUSE\/openSUSE Agama Installer Now Warns For No-Desktop Installs, Supports systemd-boot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.phoronix.com\/news\/SUSE-Agama-Installer-21\">SUSE\/openSUSE Agama Installer Now Warns For No-Desktop Installs, Supports systemd-boot<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.phoronix.com\/news\/SUSE-Agama-Installer-21\">https:\/\/www.phoronix.com\/news\/SUSE-Agama-Installer-21<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-21 14:07:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.phoronix.com\">www.phoronix.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>SUSE engineers continue working on their modern &#8220;Agama&#8221; operating system installer used by the latest SUSE Linux Enterprise and openSUSE Linux distributions. Out today is Agama 21 to incorporate their latest OS installer enhancements.<\/p>\n<p>SUSE engineers felt that with Agama up to now it was too easy to accidentally install SUSE Linux Enterprise \/ openSUSE without any desktop environment selected. So one of the key changes with Agama 21 is now warning users if they are attempting an installation without a desktop environment selected, to avoid the shock of booting your new installation with just a text-based system<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That was not obvious enough in previous versions of Agama. As a result, it was too easy to end up installing a system with no graphical interface at all. The resulting text-based system could be daunting for many users, especially newbies to openSUSE or GNU\/Linux in general.&#8221;<br \/>\n<br \/>So with a proper warning, this won&#8217;t hopefully be a concern moving forward.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.phoronix.net\/image.php?id=2026&#038;image=agama_no_desktop\" alt=\"Agama with no desktop warning\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Agama 21 also improves the network management options from its web-based UI, supports installing now to an existing Logical Volume Manager (LVM) setup, and adds support for systemd-boot as an alternative to GRUB2. <\/p>\n<p>More details on the Agama 21 OS installer release via Agama-Project.GitHub.io.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.phoronix.com\/news\/SUSE-Agama-Installer-21\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SUSE\/openSUSE Agama Installer Now Warns For No-Desktop Installs, Supports systemd-boot https:\/\/www.phoronix.com\/news\/SUSE-Agama-Installer-21 Publish Date: 2026-05-21 14:07:00&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":251701,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.phoronix.net\/image.php?id=2026&image=agama_no_desktop","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[71,98,162],"class_list":["post-251699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-linux","tag-linux","tag-opensuse","tag-suse-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251699"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251699"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":251703,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251699\/revisions\/251703"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}