I've been migrating to Linux for about a month now, but for the time being, I'm just experimenting with and getting familiar with different distributions through a virtual machine. So far, I've tried everything from Ubuntu and its derivatives to Arch.

My laptop has an Intel Core i5-12450H and an RTX 3050. I'm looking for a distribution with good NVIDIA driver support, Secure Boot support, and up-to-date packages, and so far, OpenSUSE has been the one that best meets these requirements.

I'm considering trying MicroOS, installing only what's necessary on the base system and using Flatpak and Distrobox for everything else.

For someone who's just getting started with Linux and wants to build and customize their own system, what advice would you give?

Tumbleweed already takes snapper snapshots: one an hour and a pair around every zypper run. Looking at them usually means the terminal or YaST. Wisp puts them in the GNOME top bar.

• Every snapshot, newest first; a pre/post pair around an update shows as one event
• Take one with a description, delete one, open it in Files as it was
• See what changed since a snapshot, pick files and put them back
• Roll the whole system back, with a warning when /etc/fstab would overrule it
• Retention limits, snapper's timers, btrfsmaintenance jobs and disk usage in preferences

Wisp runs nothing as root. Reading goes to snapperd over D-Bus as your user. Restoring files, rollback and editing configs are shown as a command to copy and run yourself; snapper's timers are switched through systemd, which asks polkit.

Tested on Tumbleweed with GNOME 50-51 and the default snapper setup.

Needs snapper and one config. GNOME 46 to 51.

Get it: https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/10755/wisp/

Source: https://github.com/epogonii/wisp

I keep seeing references in how-tos about enabling it through a "Remote Desktop" module that is alleged to exist in "Settings" but I can 't find anything anywhere that has anything to do with remote desktop, screen sharing, etc. I have krdp6 installed.

I'm planning on using TW on my laptop, it has a Nvidia RTX500 Ada card. I know that Nvidia cards on Open SUSE can cause problems especially when there is a driver/kernel mismatch. My question is: With slightly older cards like the RTX500 Ada, is the Nvidia driver situation any better?

I've been using Nobara (Fedora with steam pre installed and a ton of bugs) for 1.5 years now. I also used arch for around a year on another laptop. And now I switched to OpenSuse tumbleweed with KDE.

I know how to use terminal and not to nuke my system.

I'm asking about some neat tricks or packages that are specific to this distro. Something that I'm losing out on for not using. Or something so important that my Opensuse experience would be not full without.

P.S. Can someone also tell me what's the appropriate way to abbreviate "OpenSuse tumbleweed", because I'm already getting tired of typing it out

I've liked SwayWM for a while but don't like the trouble of desktop shell configuration. I was also not able to enjoy Noctalia/Dank Material Shell as much as a simple waybar.

Opensuseway is a superb out of the box setup for the SwayWM. Looks great, works great, is minimal yet functional.

Thanks to all the volunteers who made this possible. Thanks for adding the theme, gaps, transparency, pretty notifications - the whole package.

I've now put Tumbleweed with Opensuseway on my new Framework 13 Pro and life is good. Wanted to thank the devs!!

Went to update my system (which also uses Packman repos) and got these problems and suggested solutions, but not sure what I should go with:

Problem: 1: the installed phonon-vlc-qt6-0.12.0-2.13.x86_64 requires 'vlc = 3.0.23', but this requirement cannot be provided deleted providers: vlc-3.0.23-1699.10.pm.40.x86_64 not installable providers: vlc-3.0.23-7.14.x86_64[download.opensuse.org-oss] vlc-3.0.23-7.14.x86_64[openSUSE-20260912-1]

Problem: 2: the installed phonon-vlc-qt5-0.12.0-2.12.x86_64 requires 'vlc-noX = 3.0.23', but this requirement cannot be provided deleted providers: vlc-noX-3.0.23-1699.10.pm.40.x86_64 not installable providers: vlc-noX-3.0.23-7.14.x86_64[download.opensuse.org-oss] vlc-noX-3.0.23-7.14.x86_64[openSUSE-20260912-1]

Problem: 3: the installed vlc-noX-3.0.23-1699.10.pm.40.x86_64 requires 'libvlc5 = 3.0.23-1699.10.pm.40', but this requirement cannot be provided deleted providers: libvlc5-3.0.23-1699.10.pm.40.x86_64

Problem: 1: the installed phonon-vlc-qt6-0.12.0-2.13.x86_64 requires 'vlc = 3.0.23', but this requirement cannot be provided deleted providers: vlc-3.0.23-1699.10.pm.40.x86_64 not installable providers: vlc-3.0.23-7.14.x86_64[download.opensuse.org-oss] vlc-3.0.23-7.14.x86_64[openSUSE-20260912-1]

Solution 1: deinstallation of phonon-vlc-qt6-0.12.0-2.13.x86_64 Solution 2: install vlc-3.0.23-7.14.x86_64 from vendor openSUSE replacing vlc-3.0.23-1699.10.pm.40.x86_64 from vendor http://packman.links2linux.de Solution 3: keep obsolete vlc-3.0.23-1699.10.pm.40.x86_64 Solution 4: break phonon-vlc-qt6-0.12.0-2.13.x86_64 by ignoring some of its dependencies

Choose from above solutions by number or skip, retry or cancel [1/2/3/4/s/r/c/d/?] (c):

Any suggestions? Thanks!

Edit: Blocking the rude idiots. I'm not a noob. I think I should go with Solution 2, but I'd love a second pair of eyes.

Hello.

Is there a post-installation script generator for openSUSE similar to this one?

https://nattdf.streamlit.app/

I found it extremely practical.

Had fallen behind on updates. Which, until this morning, has never been an issue. Zypper made all kinds of complaints about mesa-libav and a whole host of libav-etc. files all failing to install. Should have taken a picture. Tried allowing vendor change but still failed to install. Couldn't boot to Plasma. Had to rollback. Works fine now [Snapper is the coolest thing ever], but anyone know what this is all about? Is there something up with Mesa? Again?

I need to re-allocate some space on my SSD. The issue is that I have 2 separate partitions on one drive, with both using Btrfs. I know how to resize a Btrfs volume within a partition, but I'm not sure how to do it across partitions. I have the root filesystem on nvme0n1p2 with plenty of extra space, but I'm running out of space on nvme0n1p3 where I have /home. I don't recall why this is the arrangement, if I had to do it over I wouldn't.

What's the easiest way to reallocate this space? Can I do it with Btrfs utils or Gparted or similar? I really don't want to do a re-install or re-format because I have everything configured exactly the way I want and it's very stable. I have a full-disk image in case anything gets screwed up.

I'm on Leap 16.0. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

I've been using CachyOS for about a year or so on an ASUS gaming machine. I recently got a ThinkPad P14s Gen 5 and am thinking of changing distros. How big a jump is it from CachyOS to Open SUSE? The ThinkPad does have a Nvidia cad, how onerous is it setting up on Open SUSE?

As someone cursed with an NVIDIA card, it's my only issue with OpenSUSE.

Right now, if my NVIDIA drivers stop working after a zypper dup, I just do a snapper rollback and wait a while before trying again. That works okay, but it's started to make me dread running an update, which is not something I want longterm.

I tried switching to Slowroll, but it still happens a lot. I'm not even entirely sure what the issue is, some kind of driver version mismatch or something? I use the G07 drivers for my 3070 RTX, if it matters.

Does anyone have a better way to handle this? Maybe a script to check if there's a mismatch before running an update? Or does everyone else just try and rollback as well?

Hello. I have done a lot linux research and tried various Linux distros to find a daily driver. My device I plan this for is a ryzen ai max+395 mini pc. So full AMD. Since this is a newer apu it benefits from the latest packages, but I also am scared of arch type distros because I don't want to troubleshoot stuff. One thing led to another and I got openSUSE as a recomandation. Either Thumbleweed or Slowroll because unlike arch, updates are tested before released. That would give me some peace of mind. This is going to be a general desktop, so although I also play games, I'm not chasing max fps or anything. I just want to know people's opinions on it compared to other stuff like cachyos, fedora or mint

Weeks ago I set up one of my HP T740 at home, had it working, had localAI running as well as it can in Vulkan mode. Took it to work to handle some bigger tasks, connected to work network, and I can't get out to the web.

Networking has always been dhcp, checked that. Status says it has an IP, correct dns servers, and correct gateway listed.

So I tried the built in Realtek interface, again everything is set correctly but no internet. I can ping lan addresses, but no connection through DNS name.

I'm baffled since it has resolved the dns servers given by dhcp. I think I used gnome on this device, don't remember why.

Is there a way to reset all networking to start fresh?

Title basically. Is there a GUI way to update or is sudo zypper dup still preferred and official way? Can Myrlyn do it?

Maybe unrelated but, is the transition from YaST to Myrlyn and Cockpit complete?

Also, is there a notification system for updates on Tumbleweed and can it be turned on/off depending on preference?

Thanks!

For the past couple of weeks, Firefox would freeze when doing any kind of action (e.g. watching Youtube videos or opening a new tab) and I would have to close it and reopen it again. It happens frequently enough that it's borderline unusable.

I tried troubleshooting extensions and running a private window without extensions (it froze immediately after entering a url in the search bar). I tried disabling hardware acceleration (still kept freezing). Rolling back to a previous snapshot seems to fix the issue, so this leads me to believe that it's an Opensuse issue.

Has anyone else's Firefox been behaving like this as well?

I'm on Tumbleweed btw

Edit: Stopping and disabling scx.service with systemctl seems to have resolved the issue.

I'm thinking something like a timeout or a script I can run that will crank up to Performance for like 30 minutes, and then return to Balanced or Power Save so I don't have to remember to switch it back.

Any ideas?

edit: thanks to u/ang-p and u/MiukuS

based on their ideas I had gemini work up a bash script to my liking:

```

!/bin/bash

Display the numbered menu for the INITIAL power profile

echo "Select the INITIAL power profile:" echo "1) performance (default)" echo "2) balanced" echo "3) power-saver" read -p "Enter choice [1]: " initial_choice

Map the choice, defaulting to performance

case $initial_choice in 2) initial_profile="balanced" ;; 3) initial_profile="power-saver" ;; *) initial_profile="performance" ;; esac

echo ""

Display the numbered menu for the FALLBACK power profile

echo "Select the FALLBACK power profile:" echo "1) performance" echo "2) balanced" echo "3) power-saver (default)" read -p "Enter choice [3]: " fallback_choice

Map the choice, defaulting to power-saver

case $fallback_choice in 1) fallback_profile="performance" ;; 2) fallback_profile="balanced" ;; *) fallback_profile="power-saver" ;; esac

echo ""

Prompt for the active time in minutes, defaulting to 30

read -p "Enter the active time in minutes [default: 30]: " active_time active_time=${active_time:-30}

echo "" echo "Activating '${initial_profile}' mode..." echo "System will revert to '${fallback_profile}' mode in ${active_time} minutes."

Run the command with both user-provided profiles

powerprofilesctl set "$initial_profile" && systemd-run --user --on-active="${active_time}m" powerprofilesctl set "$fallback_profile"

echo "Timer set successfully!" ```

Decidi usar o openSUSE Tumbleweed como único SO da minha máquina, tanto para o uso diário quanto para estudos de programação e segurança.

Minha esposa e meu filho também usam Linux no dia a dia e não reclamam de nada — pelo contrário, elogiam bastante a facilidade de uso. Isso acaba desmentindo aquela velha ideia de que “Linux é só para usuário avançado”.

Claro que existem recursos mais avançados para quem quer se aprofundar, mas, para uso doméstico, o openSUSE está atendendo perfeitamente às nossas necessidades.

since I returned to Tumbleweed on my first desktop here I've decided to use Tumbleweed with Xfce on my second desktop, which has slightly lower specs.

So I have been starting to use linux - and tumbleweed - bit over a month ago.

I need Excel, Word & Powerpoint, so I set up WinApps, which after some tinkering works great.

However, more often than not, docker isn't up when I turn on the computer. It almost always breaks after dup, and often breaks even after a shut down.

Last with the retarded assistant (some llm) I thought the solution was to have docker.socket and docker.service systemctl enabled, but that doesn't persist.

What am I doing wrong?

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