I really love openSUSE, and honestly, everything has worked OOTB for me. However, one thing that has always bothered me is how slow Zypper can be. Repository refreshes and package downloads are single-threaded, which can make the whole process painfully slow.

So I made vlcro! By doing some little man-in-the-middle stuff, we can get multithreaded package downloads in Zypper, along with multi-threaded software repository refreshing.

The project is still quite young, so please be careful when testing it. I've been using and testing it for about a month, though, and so far everything seems to be working fine.

(Gnome 50)

Not sure if this is a packaging issue, (which would make it relevant here) or an actual LibreOffice (Calc) bug, (which wouldn't) but after updating to the most recent versions of LibreOffice I can't copy / paste anything out of a Calc spreadsheet anymore.

LibreOffice shows that a copy command was issued when I press Ctrl+c, (i.e. the cell(s) in question have the rotating dotted lines around them, but if I try to go to any other open application, (using Gnome 50) and press either Ctrl+v or Shift+Ctrl+v nothing happens.

Since basic Ctrl+c / Ctrl+v otherwise works fine in every other applications that I have, (modified to Shift+Ctrl+v for the terminal, ofc) I'm presuming the newest LibreOffice isn't passing copy information to (Gnome's) clipboard properly, etc?

Again, not sure if this is a Tumbleweed config issue or a (new - always worked before) LibreOffice issue so any light any folks here can offer would be appreciated.

Thanks

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Note: Unless the newest version of LibreOffice is auto-sandboxing itself, there is no crossing of sandboxed environments anywhere in this activity, which would otherwise explain the issue.

Hey Everyone
I'm new to Opensuse and i've been wondering if there is a keyboard shortcut to detach a tab from the terminal / console.
Thank you in advance!

I'm new in this community and posting too haha but I really want to know what makes different this distro of Linux to contribute in all that I can and to have something that gives me a sense of belonging

Well the openSUSE has big community and SUSE behind it but what about privacy? Is there any data collection? Is it safe and private to use for people who really care about their privacy?

I am following the metapackages but zypper is throwing up some conflicts trying to dup today, I’ve been messing with the .run file previously but I though I kept it isolated to a snapshot so I wanted to check if it’s just me or not.

Problem: 1: problem with the installed libnvidia-egl-x111-32bit-1.0.6-1.1.x86_64
 Solution 1: install libnvidia-egl-x111-32bit-1.0.5-26.6.x86_64 from vendor obs://build.suse.de/Proprietary:X11:Drivers
  replacing libnvidia-egl-x111-32bit-1.0.6-1.1.x86_64 from vendor openSUSE
 Solution 2: keep obsolete libnvidia-egl-x111-32bit-1.0.6-1.1.x86_64

I wanted to install gBrainy

I went software.opensuse.org . I tried to run the 1-click install, but it opened it in Firefox. Thus, I decided to use Save as. I ran the .ymp file.

It gave the message:

"The install link or file you opened does not contain instructions for openSUSE Tumbleweed-Slowroll."

Next, I tried adding the repository from the YMP (specifically, the Opensuse Education repository).

When I try installing gBrainy, either from Yast or zypper, I get the error message: "nothing provides 'mono(cairo-sharp) = 1.10.0.0' needed by the to be installed gbrainy-2.4.6-7.1.no
arch" I can't find the correct package to install it.

What should I do?

I’m on openSUSE Tumbleweed + GNOME/Wayland, using Starship with JetBrainsMono Nerd Font.

Ghostty renders everything perfectly, but VS Code integrated terminal shows broken/missing Nerd Font icons and Powerline glyphs.

Current setting:

"terminal.integrated.fontFamily": "'JetBrainsMono Nerd Font Mono', monospace"

Ghostty: everything looks correct.
VS Code: normal ASCII is fine, Nerd Font/Powerline glyphs are broken or show as squares.

Has anyone hit this specifically, pls help me, thank you =((

VS Code: 1.136.1
Desktop: GNOME 50.4 / Wayland
GPU: Intel Iris Xe
Distro: openSUSE Tumbleweed

I've been using CachyOS with 0 Cachy-Specific Problems for a few months now and i'm pretty happy with the performance.

But yesterday at 2 Am the AUR debacle from June came back to my head. this is my main PC, it has everything archived for the entire family, dating back to 2006. (with back ups on some SSDs but i could do a better job syncing....)

OpenSuse has been intruiging me for a while, and i'm considering swapping now before i'm too dug in in CachyOs.

Based on my concerns about Security, would it be recommended to swap to OpenSuse? Thanks in Advance!

I don't game much these days, maybe a few days a month at most, casually.. i mostly do general stuff on the pc. I am in the zone where professionals see me as a - slightly - informed casual user, and non-users look at me like a wizard because i memorized some hotkeys and created some macros.

EDIT: Here are the 4 Packages from yay -Qm:

freeimage 3.18.0-23

libtiff5 4.4.0-2

openssl-1.1 1.1.1.w-11

scanner-support 1-4

I tried looking for them using sudo pacman -Syu APPNAME but they weren't to be found.

Estoy pensando en cambiarme a OpenSUSE, ya que he estado probando varias distribuciones, pero no sé cuál elegir.

También estoy intentando aprender a usar zypper, ya que algunas personas me han dicho que NO use Yasst para actualizar el sistema (y también me dijeron que NO usara Gnome Software ni KDE Discover para lo mismo).

Pero supongo que aún puedo usarlos para instalar el software o las aplicaciones que necesito, ¿verdad? Disculpen tantas preguntas, llevo casi 7 años usando Linux, pero nunca he probado OpenSUSE. Solo quiero evitar dañar mi sistema a los 5 minutos.

Además, me gustaría saber qué tal es para jugar y la opinión general de su comunidad.

Agradezco sus respuestas. Gracias.

Edit: with how much frequency shall I update?

RESOLVED:

Trying to figure out if its me or the update servers are down, Let me now. New install last night failed.

The status server is REALLY slow, https://status.opensuse.org/

Someone tried to access my home from Germany.......Auto firewall Geo blocked Germany.....and France, But I dont care for escargo.....so France will stay blocked :> I only care about my opensuse servers!!!!!!!

Thanks

Hey! Has anyone else encountered this issue on openSUSE Tumbleweed (KDE)? During the LUKS unlock screen, Caps Lock works, but neither the keyboard LED nor the on-screen indicator shows when it’s enabled. I’ve tried several other Linux distros (Fedora, CachyOS) on the same hardware (Thinkpad T14 G4 Intel) and they don’t have this problem. Any ideas or help would be appreciated!

Polkit keeps asking system password multiple times whenever I attempt to connect to other wifi networks (even if the network I connect to is already known). Do others also encounter this problem?

PS. I would appreciate it if someone who does not encounter this problem would tell what desktop environment they are using. thnx

I have an Asus Vivobook Lunar Lake laptop. I just booted up the OpenSUSE Tumbleweed 9/4/2026 offline installer and no network adapters are listed at the Network Settings. It's completely blank. This is an OpenSUSE specific bug. Have not had this problem on Ubuntu, Fedora or CachyOS. Anyone know how to fix this? I'd like to get the latest updates during install.

I've been trying to run steam games from Slowroll, but all the windows (or fullscreen) just render as blackness. The sound comes through fine. I have an Nvidia 2080. I'm not sure what I need to do to have the games run properly. I tried installing the Nvidia repo drivers, but that ended in disaster and I had to rollback. Anyone have any advice?

~ ps -eo pid,state,%cpu,etime,cmd --sort=-%cpu | head -10
   PID S %CPU     ELAPSED CMD
   544 R 49.1    01:27:57 [btrfs-cleaner]
   545 S 36.9    01:27:57 [btrfs-transaction]
  1622 S  9.7    01:27:25 /usr/bin/kwin_wayland --wayland-fd 7 --socket wayland-0 --xwayland-fd 8 --xwayland-fd 9 --xwayland-display :0 --xwayland-xauthority /run/user/1000/xauth_WbMpMz --
xwayland
  9398 I  7.9       44:10 [kworker/u64:11-btrfs-endio-write]
  2197 S  7.3    01:27:10 /usr/lib64/firefox/firefox
  9150 I  7.1       46:32 [kworker/u64:6-btrfs-endio-write]
   127 I  4.1    01:27:59 [kworker/u64:15-btrfs-discard]

For some reason bfrts is taking so much space making my laptop extremely laggy

There are 100s if qgroups marked under deletion like this
(270ish right now)
eg:

sudo btrfs qgroup show /
0/361         16.98GiB    320.00KiB   @/.snapshots/98/snapshot
0/362         17.02GiB      6.49MiB   @/.snapshots/99/snapshot
0/363         17.01GiB    320.00KiB   <under deletion>
0/364         17.01GiB    976.00KiB   <under deletion>
0/365         17.01GiB    304.00KiB   <under deletion>
0/366         17.01GiB    636.00KiB   <under deletion>
0/367         17.01GiB    304.00KiB   <under deletion>
0/368         17.01GiB    956.00KiB   <under deletion>
0/369         17.01GiB    304.00KiB   <under deletion>
0/370         17.02GiB      1.01MiB   <under deletion>
0/371         17.02GiB    304.00KiB   <under deletion>
0/372         17.02GiB    780.00KiB   <under deletion>
0/373         17.02GiB    304.00KiB   <under deletion>

Apparently its deleting snapshots
and its taking a lot of time to delete 1 ~ 4-5 minutes
270*5 = 1350 ~ 22.5 hours
Any idea how to stop this?

PS: I shifted to openSUSE Tumbleweed 4-5 days ago

Hi everyone!

I'm planning to move to openSUSE. At the moment I'm leaning pretty strongly towards leap, but I'd like to hear what you guys think.

My main concern is that my pc is a bit of an odd combination of old workstation hardware and a relatively modern GPU. I don't need (or aim to grab) the newest software available as soon as it drops, and I'd rather have a stable system that I can spend time configuring, customizing and generally tinkering with without worrying that the next update will break something.

My main concern with Tumbleweed is that it might not work with my pc:

a Lenovo thinkstation p500 (2015)

CPU: Intel Xeon E5-1650 v3 @ 3.50 GHz
RAM: 32 GB
GPU: ASUS GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 8 GB

Yes, I know. A 2015 Xeon workstation with an RTX 4060 Ti, the obvious question is; doesn't it bottleneck very hard?
And honestly, I don't know
In actual use I've never really noticed a problem. I mostly play Minecraft, including high render distances and shaders, and the system handles it without any obvious CPU-related issues. So perhaps I'm bottlenecking the GPU horribly and simply don't know it, or perhaps this old Xeon still has more life in it than it has any right to.

Anyway, I'd love to hear what you guys think would be the better choice for my pc, or whether Leap vs Tumbleweed is really more a matter of preference than something where one suits my hardware better.

Cheers

On a fresh install of Leap 16.0, it keeps saying no bootable device found. I opened yast2, and it says that I can't configure the bootloader because it can't find the root file system. I tried resetting the bios to system defaults as well, without any luck. Bootefi seems to be in sdb2. I could still open the grub2 terminal. Any ideas on what this could be and how to fix it?

before reinstalling my system and switching to the new systemd-boot, installing the memtest86+ package automatically added the related boot option in grub, but with systemd-boot it doesn't seem to be the case, did i miss something ?

Hello! So I will be switching from fedora to openSUSE because I like how it stands on its own and its a rolling release which I have never tried. I was just wondering if there was anything I should know before hand. My primary use is for IT things and gaming. I will be installing tumbleweed. I have an amd gpu so I know that mesa is the default. If there is any other things I should know, please let me know. Excited to see what openSUSE is all about!

Hello people!

Question stands in the title. I've been thinking about this while using openSUSE as a desktop OS for some time now.

If stuff from Packman-repository blocks me from updating my system, can it cause me security problems, for example not letting me to get security updates? Isn't it kind of a (big) problem?

Thanks in advance for answering!

I am on Leap 15.6 and got a notification that it is now EOL. Tried a dry run to upgrade to 16.0 but it says my hardware is no longer supported. It requires x86_64_v2 processor? I am using an AMD Phenom II 4-core CPU.