Can anyone tell me what this means I make it through the graphical installer and come up with this
It seems the graphical installer is failing to start. You don't happen to have an Nvidia card, do you?
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I do a 980ti
That card won't work in Linux without the proprietary Nvidia drivers. You can add the kernel boot arguments nomodeset nouveau.modeset=0 to temporarily boot the installer, but once you've finished installing you'll want to install the proprietary drivers. Last I heard it was difficult to install the Nvidia proprietary drivers on OpenSUSE, so you may want to look into another distro.
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Any recommendations? I pretty much want to ditch windows and force myself to learn Linux.
If you haven't used Linux much in the past, using a .deb based distro is a good start. Ubuntu (or its flavors), Linux Mint, or Debian.
If you want to start off with a rolling release, IMO, Manjaro is one of the easier ones due to an easy GUI installer. They also compile the NVIDIA proprietary drivers even in the Live USB, so you can test out the proprietary drivers before even installing the OS.
I use OpenSUSE as a GTX 1070 user and like it, but it's a bit of a DIY task.
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I pretty much second @DoctorDemand's suggestions. In addition to Debian derivatives (out of these, I'd recommend Ubuntu or a flavor of it), I'd also recommend checking out Solus. It's a newer distro, but it has very convenient graphical utilities for many things and also comes with the NVIDIA proprietary drivers as well as steam in its default repositories.
Try Fedora 26 You can install from the Live distro then once you have completed you can the proprietary driver and be good to go
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Ok was looking at taking course through Linux academy and they want us to run cent os through a virtual machine.
Sounds like a winner it will coincide with the cent os virtual machine. And since my focus will be Dev ops. Most of what I was reading say redhat is the way to go, does it fair pretty well on a x-99 platform?
AFAIK, Red hat is commerical software only, hence it costs money.
If that looks appealing to you, I recommend what @Miguel_Sensacion and install Fedora 26. And it just released today I believe, so you have a lot of new stuff to mess around with.
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Is the install pretty easy? Sorry for dumb question just want to know what I'm walking into
it is, You do have an Nvidia card so if you have problems after the install let us know, But you will make it to the install and partition
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I'm running on Fedora 26 myself. The installer is pretty decent and you shouldn't have too many issues. You'll most likely have to boot with nomodeset nouveau.modeset=0 for the installer. Once you have the system installed, you can add the negativo17 repo and install the Nvidia drivers from there.
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So last dumb question do you guys live usb or disk? I also believe it uses the yum package manager know of any good resources for me to get familiar with that?
I would recommend installing with a Live USB, if that's what you're asking. On windows, you can use the Fedora Media Creation Tool or Rufus. Also, Fedora actually uses dnf (yum's successor) as a package manager. It's quite simple and you can get a list of its commands here.
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Thanks for the help everyone. I will keep you guys updated on how the process is going.
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BTW CentOs is pretty much the community version of Red Hat. So if you want to learn Red Hat CentoOS is a good way to go. FEdora is the same but it is bleeding edge and does not have the same Enterprise support schedule. It is pretty much designed to be updated every 6 months.
people will throw distros at you, but really Linux Mint or Ubuntu are the recommended new user distros. Fedora isn't particularly intuitive on first install, as to even play video files requires farting around with codecs.
You can get a redhat developer license which allows you to run one physical machine or two virtual machines free of charge under that license.