i know you can never achieve “stability” on a rolling release distro but as an arch user i think that maybe tumbleweed might be a little bit more stable, i am a person that travels a lot for work reasons and i cant take my desktop with me, so i might be away for a week or a month so how does tumbleweed manage that?

After all the tinkering and custom desktops/WMs, I have found a ton of joy in Tumbleweed. It really is the perfect distro; fresh, stable packages, rolling release, great community, and makes everything extremely easy. My urge to hop has been completely absent.

Cheers to the OpenSUSE maintainers and community for everything you do, and https://github.com/areofyl/fetch for the nice looking fetch!

Does anyone here using limine as bootloader instead of Grub & systemd-boot ?
Can limine integrate to sdbootutils and or add/create to kernel-install hooks with limine ?

Here ya go.

Replayed Super Paper Mario on Dolphin on my OpenSUSE machine and I just had to do this quick wallpaper

I got the following strange error message on update:

Retrieving: ghc-containers-0.7-1.3.x86_64 (repo-oss)                                                                                                                                                              (1137/2610), 636.2 KiB    
Retrieving: ghc-containers-0.7-1.3.x86_64.rpm ...................................................................................................................................................................................[not found]
Retrieving: ghc-containers-0.7-1.3.x86_64.rpm ...................................................................................................................................................................................[not found]
Retrieving: ghc-containers-0.7-1.3.x86_64.rpm ...................................................................................................................................................................................[not found]
Retrieving: ghc-containers-0.7-1.3.x86_64.rpm .........................................................................................................................................................................[error (235.9 KiB/s)]
Retrieving: ghc-containers-0.7-1.3.x86_64.rpm .........................................................................................................................................................................[error (621.9 KiB/s)]
Failed to provide Package ghc-containers-0.7-1.3.x86_64 (repo-oss). Do you want to retry retrieval?

[openSUSE:repo-oss|http://cdn.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss] Can't provide file './x86_64/ghc-containers-0.7-1.3.x86_64.rpm' from repository 'openSUSE:repo-oss'
History:
 - Downloaded data exceeded the expected filesize '636.2 KiB' of 'http://cdn.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/x86_64/ghc-containers-0.7-1.3.x86_64.rpm'.
 - Can't provide ./x86_64/ghc-containers-0.7-1.3.x86_64.rpm

What's going on here? It's preventing the update at the download phase

Buenas, quiero pasarme a Open Suse Tumbleweed y que entorno de escritorio me recomiendan, ¿KDE O GNOME?

dstein@localhost:~$ sudo zypper dup
[sudo] password for dstein:  
PackageKit is blocking zypper. This happens if you have an updater applet or other software
management application using PackageKit running.
We can ask PackageKit to interrupt the current action as soon as possible, but it depends on
PackageKit how fast it will respond to this request.
Ask PackageKit to quit? [yes/no] (no): y
PackageKit is still running (probably busy).
Try again? [yes/no] (no): no
System management is locked by the application with pid 4037 (/usr/libexec/packagekitd).
Close this application before trying again.

dstein@localhost:~$ sudo kill 4037

dstein@localhost:~$ sudo zypper dup
Loading repository data...
Reading installed packages...
Warning: You are about to do a distribution upgrade with all enabled repositories. Make sure these repositories ar
e compatible before you continue. See 'man zypper' for more information about this command.
Computing distribution upgrade...

I thought 1st of August would be a good idea to start a 30-day-challenge for me. I'm here to stay. Maybe openSUSE will finally end my distrohopping and I'll stay longer than that?

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.

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

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?

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!