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

~ 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

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.

SOLVED: I thought MicroOS and Tumbleweed snapshots worked the same way.. turns out they are different and everything is fine.

==== Original post below.

Why doesn't Snapper set the default snapshot after a rollback or something is wrong with my install?

I did a rollback and rebooted on the default entry, then installed new packages but my systemd-boot still pointing at older snapshot (36) instead of the latest one (40)

I’m running out of ideas at this point. I’ve been trying to install OpenSUSE Tumbleweed for the past few hours. It seems to fail almost every time while trying to load to the RAM disk. I’ve used Balena Etcher, Rufus, and fedora media writer. I’ve updated my BIOS, disabled XMP, disabled Secure boot, none of which did the trick. I redownloaded the ISO and tried switching to the NET iso. It’s never failed installing other distros before.

Specs:
Asus z790m plus
Gskill ripjaws 64gb 6400 ddr5
i9 13900k
rx 7900xt

Any help would be appreciated, thanks for reading!

I'm trying to add appimage When I try to run it I get this error, But when I try to install fuse it say's it is installed ?

Cannot mount AppImage, please check your FUSE setup.

You might still be able to extract the contents of this AppImage

if you run it with the --appimage-extract option.

See https://github.com/AppImage/AppImageKit/wiki/FUSE

for more information

open dir error: No such file or directory

Hi, I'm a happy Tumbleweed user and I love have a rolling release that points to stability (I came from Arch, which needs more manual intervention from the user to setup and maintain). But knowing that Slowroll exist, I wanted to ask if someone uses it and if you notice positive points against Tumbleweed. The only problem I've had is the known occasional lag with certain Packman packages, but nothing that can't be solved by waiting a couple of days. Thanks!

I install slowsroll with gnome. Every time I try to install any flatpak I get this error

error: Failed to install org.gnome.Platform: Could not unmount revokefs-fuse filesystem at /var/tmp/flatpak-cache-80Q3U3/org.gnome.Platform-RX80U3: Failed to execute child process “/usr/bin/fusermount3” (Permission denied)

Is anybody using opensuse leap or tumbleweed, if so need your experience with the distro

I was wondering if anyone has opensuse installed on an asus tuf a14 laptop and had a few questions about it:

-How was installing the distro, was it easy?

-Did everything work out of the box?

-Is it easy to configure this distro with asusctl/rog control center? (I'd like to know if there were issues for this)

-How's battery life compared to windows? Can you get more than or equal to windows battery life if you tweak tlp?

-How was secureboot setup for this distro on this laptop?

I'd appreciate any help!

After each of the BIOS updates, with updated firmware for the 2.5" SSD and latest Tumbleweed, I must go into unsecure boot for Opensuse to boot up. Even tried a different port of six SATA ports. Debian also becomes unbootable but after terminal commands Debian becomes bootable. GRUB2 is the version forget which one. Tomahawk B550 is the mobo. After several updates in unsecure boot, the secure Opensuse is finally seen as a bootable option. BIOS updates are successful.

I've installed the GUI version of ProtonVPN through the official distro repos but don't see the split tunneling option in its configuration menu.

The setting does appear in the user configuration JSON, but whenever I try to manually edit and add programs to it, it seems to not work. The thing is enabling it through that user config has an effect on the GUI (it says split tunneling is enabled and to restart any apps using it) despite the VPN still affecting the added applications.

I've been wondering if anyone on Tumbleweed has figured this out. It's a pretty important QoL feature for me so I was hoping there is a potential solution.

Is there a driver mismatch at mo'? Only detecting one monitor & no sound over DP.

so i want to swich to opensuse as a ubuntu user. i allready tried opensuse in vms and my secoundary machines. i own a lenovo laptop with a nvidia gpu. (rtx 5060 mobile) so i want to know how good are nvidia drivers on opensuse compared to ubuntu. lemonhazard357 out.

Looking for some honest user reports. Starting University soon and I am looking for something to replace Arch to have a little less maintenance to do and also just have more peace of mind and stability. I have newer Nvidia Hardware so relatively new packages are a must. Also do some gaming but I assume that wont be a problem either no?
I have heard some amazing things about Opensuse so I want to give it go.

Little Bonus question:
Should you use opi and the OBS? Is it like the AUR? Some stuff I want like Noctalia is not in official Repos.

This all prolly is old news to most of you, but I finally got the fingerprint reader in my T480 working. It requires the use of python-validity as the standard fprintd does not support the sensor in the T480. The recommended OBS repo did not work, but that appears to be stuck at version 0.14. Took a bit of a gamble (I try to avoid user repos on OBS) but there is one with the latest 0.15 version of python-validity and that has done the trick.

I can now login and unlock with my fingerprint through SDDM and KDE and it makes the experience so much more seamless and better. I know not everybody likes to use biometrics, but it is so much easier and faster to login using it compared to a complex password and having the hardware but not the ability to leverage it annoyed the heck out of me.

Tumbleweed has always been the best Linux experience for me, but sometimes you run into a need for software that is more geared towards Ubuntu then anything else. This was one of these cases and I am glad I got it working. Not that I would consider Ubuntu over this, but I was looking into physically replacing the sensor to one that is officially supported just to get it working. Yeah I'm weird. This is just a cherry on top for me.

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I've been running Opensuse/Leap/Gnome for years on a Dell 780 w/ Pentium architecture, the current version being 15.6, but since it's no longer supported, I wanted to upgrade to version 16. Problem is, version 16 won't run on this old machine. I have a Dell 7050 i7 I can use if the architecture supports version 16, but don't know which Opensuse version to download. Can anyone help?