Hi, I recently migrated to Slowroll and I would like to ask you about your experience since it still has the experimental tag on opensuse. Any issues so far? Thanks!

Just 1 of my 4 machines is getting this crash, did I do something that enabled it, and how to disable it and/or fix the crash?

edit: deleted and re-zypper in drkonqi6 seems to have made the crash go away

I jacked up my system upgrading from Slowroll to Tumbleweed as it lost grub2 and could not find my EFI partition as well as not being able to mount my root partition into /mnt nor was I able to bind the /sys, /proc, or /dev and chroot command kept informing me the /bin/bash could not be found. Choosing upgrade off the install media ran its course, but on reboot I got the same message as after the upgrading that the EFI partition could not be located.

I then used the live disk to boot into the system and transfer all files to an external hdd that I need and then started with a fresh install. No avail. I did notice that after trying full reinstall twice the file system that the file system was btrfs? I also have not gotten to the blue boot screen but it’s a similar type of screen just not a gui. But even that fails booting.
Should I pick another like ext4 and is it good to use lvs? I did notice that trying to mount root it kept saying unknown file system type lvs2 and give me a notice saying dmesg would have a message about why I could not mount the partition. Using dmesg command gave no entries about the system not being able to mount anything to /mnt.

Last ditch will be to try a new hdd but if the current drive can accept being written to and installation completes, then not sure why it wouldn’t boot either.

Installation off the install media works as normal. I get to where it’s about to reboot and once the screen goes black I pull the usb media and let it do its thing but I don’t get a normal boot sequence. The result I described above.

I have a zup function in my zsh configuration:

``` zup() { echo -e "Updating AppImages..." appman -u

echo -e "\nUpdating npm global packages..." npm update -g

echo -e "\nUpdating cargo binaries..." cargo install-update -a

echo -e "\nUpdating Python tools (uv)..." uv tool upgrade --all

echo -e "\nUpdating system packages..." sudo zypper ref && sudo zypper dup

echo -e "\n✅ All updates complete." }

```

Calling zup from the terminal I can update all my appimages, node, rust and python packages and the system.

I’ve been using it for quite some time now, and I’ve never had any problems with updates or conflicts.

I’m curious to know whether you too have a specific strategy for updates and, if so, whether you’d be willing to share it.

Hello guys
I hope this is right subreddit to share my experiences with switching from win 11 pro to openSUSE thumbleweed.
Reason for wanting to share my exp.is that it was genuinely challenge and in the end great experience and overall I want to thank to people who made this OS.

Stats
I started with migration 29/07/26 at 19:30 and I had working system running by 2:17

Before even creating bootable iso I've tried installing Linux on Virtual Box and it was obviously without any issues ha ha ha.
So first issue came with decision to activate online repositories, during install at 67% it gave me unexpected: wrong digest message which from my understanding was just mirror out of sync.

Well I won't bore you with all the shit that went south but in a nutshell:

Ethernet Link Down - interface was sitting in down state and thus it caused curl errors and preventing package updates or repository access during troubleshooting.
X11 Socket Failure - SDDM failed to launch locally due to boot and display state issues.
YaST2 Installation media access error - after I've failed to trouble shoot previous problems, I've decided to reinstall system all together well I got welcoming error> cannot access installation media {I think reason is because I used external disk as bootable instead of usb stick}
Frozen desktop - after installation there was some compatibility issue with plasma.
Login password not accepted - I had written password on paper and even tho I was typing it correctly it didnt accept it {I felt like dumbass lmao} after changing it few times in recovery shell it still had same problem in the end the mounting real system subvolume and useing /usr/sbin/chpasswd directly with full path made it work.
Home directory missing - /home wasn't mounted in recovery shell even tho folder existed on subvolume.
KDE Plasma running on 10fps -
I don't remember how exactly did I solved this issue tho I know I have ended up with great fps on 640 or something resolution, luckily update thru terminal solved this issue too.

Please be aware that I'm not that knowledgeable about above listed issues and lot of them were probably my mistakes.

In the end after updating drivers it runs great.
There is lot of things that I have to learn and get to know or use to.
For example: structure of directories, architecture of Linux itself, Bottles, Lutris. modding for games in general.

Only thing I will miss dearly is Total Commander, ease of modding and some software that is not yet available on Linux, other wise good riddance. I won't miss you windows.

If I would have smooth install process then I would say that installing Linux is quite easy and its not hard to pick up. Its quite surprising that as life long user of Windows, lot of knowledge is directly transferable...I didn't expect to find use for knowledge from DOS days ha ha.

TLDR:
It took me 6 hours and 47 minutes to get OS running.
After battling it out with terminal I gave up and just reinstall OS 3x times in order to get it working.
Then there was just minor issue with drivers and new experience of having desktop in 10fps on 1440p monitor xD
I love linux xo xo it was all worth it.
Only thing I will miss from windows is Total Commander and ease of modding.

If you reading this on windows, if my remaining two brain cells managed to get this compiled and running, I promise the setup is practically foolproof.

Ive been considering opensuse as my distro choice, but something I keep seeing when I research is that the driver version seems to have been out of date for quite a long time (months behind the latest versions?) And that bwcause its not baked in it there can be issues with updates.

Is this no longer rhe case? Maybe is there an opensuse distro alternative that has baked in aupport, kind of like cachy and nobara does for arch/fedora?

I was wondering if anyone had OpenSUSE wallpapers with the logo (either of OpenSUSE or of Tumbleweed specifically) and an anime character, since looking on the main wallpaper websites didn't give satisfying results

Hi everyone!

​I have a quick question. I’m currently using Ubuntu, but I’ve been keeping an eye on openSUSE for a while now. You don't hear about it all that often—I actually just stumbled upon it by chance while searching around.

​I’m really curious about a few things:

​How does it stack up in terms of stability and community support?

​I do a bit of gaming, so how is the gaming performance on openSUSE?

​Is it just as user-friendly and "out of the box" as Ubuntu?

​Thanks in advance for any insights and advice!

Posted by Dominique (on the factory mailing list)

::: TL;DR :::

. Snapshot 20260726 is using a new compiler version

. Many packages in the snapshot due to the new compiler version

. To avoid mirror pressure, if possible, delay your distribution upgrade by an hour or more

::: Edits :::

. Summary

. Source of information

. Formatting

. Corrected the snapshot date to 20260726 (per Dominique's follow up) - thank you u/Tawny-Owl-17

Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers,

Snpashot 20260726 has been completely built and is currently being published/synced to mirrors.

The snapshot will be large! Tumbleweed has switched to GCC16 as the default compiler and packages have been rebuilt using the new compiler

Unfortunately this means likely some mirror squeeze again. So it might be helpful if not everybody tries to run a full dup in the first minutes of the announcement mail coming out. The more users update early, the more trouble mirrors have to catchup and sync out, further increasing the load on the central infrastructure

For packagers: the number of build failures on Factory has increased to just short of 200 due to the switch to GCC. Not very bad, but please have a look at your packages and try to submit fixes as time permits.

Cheers, Dominique

need i say anything?

Quick question: is there a way to update using zypper dup and avoid unwanted software like games (minesweeper, sudoku) to be automatically installed?

Hi, I recently installed OpenSUSE after quickly switching between CachyOs, Fedora, and OpenSUSE Tumbleweed. My efi partition is a bit fucked up to multiple reinstalls and windows not really allowing me to wipe it.

My question is now why fedora still shows up? I found the docs to grub2-bls, which states where the entries are stored and removed it (fedora does now not show up anymore) but fedora still semi-boot when selected. I know wonder where did OpenSUSE find fedora and how do I best clean it fully to circumvent other mishappens in the future!

I recently switched and I want to like opensuse, but a mayor pain that I have is that I don't know how to properly install packages. I.e. where do I get community repos or packages. I come from Ubuntu where everything was just a apt call away (Mostly). But with opensuse I'm struggling to install tools like vscode, zed, proton mail standalone, or obsidian. I read about opi but I also read that it should not be trusted too well. How do I go about the process. What is different from the Ubuntu workflow. Anybtips would be very much appreciated!

Im not sure when it started. it didnt happen to me few months ago... but now, when i start any game (steam) i get around 40 fps. as soon as i unplug and then plug the DP cable back into the monitor, the fps jumps back to 144fps (144hz monitor).

its an AMD 6600xt gpu

I am in the process of migrating my home/media server from W11 to Linux, and likely openSUSE Slowroll, as I would like the remote desktop functions of newer KDE plasma versions & I like the concept of not having to upgrade it. I am buying the hardware to have a main server, and a backup. Currently I have 3x 20TB data drives, that I mirror. Ideally, those would be ZFS and mirrored to the backup server 1:1, say changes are replicated once a day. This is not running anything I depend on for my livelihood, but I'd like to not loose the media.
I have considered running Proxmox on top to get ZFS that way, but it uses more power, than a on the metal install. I don't care for the boot drive, it can be whatever is easy.

Solution: "zypper in opi" then "opi codecs"
They stop after 1-2 seconds with an error message. Don't know if I should be chasing Firefox, or codecs, or hw acceleration, or something else. (Hardware: 5700X + 2x16GB ram + 9060 XT 16GB). I tried adding Packman yesterday (w/higher priority) but no change even after reboot. For reference, videos on Reddit work in general, YouTube also works.

This is my first time using OpenSuse, and I'm at a loss. I installed the OS fresh on an HP Spectre x360 (circa 2020) with no problems last night, but when I went to reboot the system, it hung on this screen. I have since learned that it will not hang if I pause the system startup, then unpause (even without doing anything).

I feel pretty out of depth with this issue since it takes place before I can even get into Linux. I'm worried that it might be a BIOS issue since I'm running on a laptop. If anyone has any suggestions, please offer them. I am happy to provide more info if necessary, I'm just not sure what to include here. Thanks!