Which chess opening to learn first?

At the moment I am sort of freestyling the openings and I am doing okay, sometimes, but whenever I try to learn a chess opening I seem to pick the ones with like a million variations and it's just too much to remember all. 

What's a nice, beginner friendly opening that you would recommend? I only play chess since a few weeks, so very low elo.

The London System is the usual go-to for first opening as white, as it allows you to play basically the same set of moves for most games, especially at low ratings where the opponent doesn't know how to counter it specifically, getting a solid, dependable order of pieces. I got to 1000 relying on the London before moving on to other openings.

For black, the Caro Kann against e4 allows for (relatively) intuitive moves and (relatively) limited variations. Against d4 you will often see the Queen's Gambit, and for that I like the Slav defense followed by dxc4 and b4 to create a well-defended pawn formation on the queen's side.

Anyway, for your first opening, the London System is the way to go for many players, and there are plenty of free videos online that will teach you enough to play it without having to memorize specific lines.

Thanks. I just found a nice looking system called the haxo gambit, which seems promising, too, and there are not many variations to remember. What do you think of it?
Either way, I will look at the London, too.

E4 for white and d4 for black and wing it from there

That's not very helpful

It depends on your playstyle: however, what I recommend for beginners is openings which are solid and easy to remember, i.e. 4 knights, guico piano, London (ew)

I think I played the 4 knights and guico piano instinctively before.

play sicilian for black and Scotch gambit for white

I thought scotch gambit only works with very specific moves from black? Wait. Let me look up with one the scotch is again because usually I prefer bourbon.

Seeing you often fell for the scholar's mate, I recommend the king's Indian setup for black.

I know, embarrassing. I normally deal better with scholars mate, but dunno. I played very terrible today. Scholars mate is quite easy to defend normally.

I recommend first learning chess opening principles instead of a specific opening, but if you want a particular opening (or more information on opening principles), then check out this video I made a while ago

For white, it's hard to get an opening you study because your opponent will play some random moves. I recommend you learn one opening and follow opening principles if your opponent deviate from it.

Learning any opening won't help at all. What you need to do: stop playing random moves. Instead, use your time and think.

In this game, you played two incredible, horrible blunders (2. - g6 and 4. - f5). You started the game with 15 minutes on the clock, and finished it with 15:27 (so you used 27 seconds less than the increment).

So again: don't play random moves. Use your time and think.

There are many openings to learn but my favourite, London system English opening Indian Gambit and queens gambit

Hi!

I posted in my blog my recommendations for an opening repertoire for beginners. Please check it out if interested:

https://www.chess.com/blog/maafernan/openings-for-beginners

Good luck!

Thanks for the replies guys. I am now watching the video posted here

Uncalled for.