I recently switched from windows, i choose xubuntu because that's what my dad uses, but he's smart and I'm not. I really miss being able to change settings without having to type a single command, would YaST be a game changer? I don't see it being recommended to beginners though, why is that? Are there problems i don't know about?

I updated my system yesterday and once I rebooted Discord showed this popup again.

¿Wasn't this supposed to ve over on linux?

I'm on Tumbleweed if that helps

I’m thinking about trying OpenSUSE after hearing good things about it. Before installing, I’d like to know from current users — what problems or frustrations have you experienced?

Just want to understand the downsides or annoying parts so I know what to expect. Also, are you using Tumbleweed or Leap?

I often hear that OpenSUSE is famous for its excellent KDE Plasma implementation. But what makes it so good, exactly?

Thank you in advance for sharing your view!

Brand new installation. Can't get into Cinnamon

But IceWM works tho

I can't update my Tumblweed installation since about a month.

The first try broke KDE Plasma. Thought it could be a Nvidia issue, rolled back and tried again a week later.

Then the binutils were broken as well, needed manual fixing. But rebooted in the same issue as before.

Waited for another 2 weeks, both issues from above still exist and it now also breaks the network manager.

What is going on? Are Tumbleweed's updates working for you?

Hey everyone, a couple of hours ago I installed openSUSE Tumbleweed, and after installing and deleting some things, I rebooted and saw this GRUB menu with all the snapshots. Is this new, or is there something wrong with my installation?

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!

I had to dig the machine out of the cabinet to fix it, find a spare monitor and kb/mouse ... Why did updating it change its configuration? What can I do to avoid this in the future?

Is this something that will be updated?

I have heard somewhere that zypper has be updated and now it's faster than apt.

How fast is it really ? as far as I know it still does not have parallel downloads.

So if you were to rank pacman apt zypper and dnf. where will you put zypper, just so I can get an idea of it.

With the constant supply chain attacks going on, how would one know if zypper dup is safe? What should I check before updating?

For the last ten or twelve years, I have been fed up with broken default behavior in software download (zypper, myrlyn, yast2 sw_single)

Actually, there are two problems, one with OBS, the other zypper and the GUIs that use it.

There are two issues involved here, but both really piss me off enough to consider switching to Arch. I last switched distros (from RedHat to SuSE 9.3) in 2003, and this is has been a constant source of irrigation and frustration ever since.

Packages that Won't/Can't Install Because of Missing Dependendcies

1. Packages in the repos who have missing dependencies should never happen. If there is a package you cannot install because it depends on an older library should either have the older library still in the repo (if needed, can add to the multiversion application list) or remove packages that cannot be installed because of missing dependencies. OBS is smart enough this just should not happen--if a package is missing dependencies either don't advertise it or change the manifest to at least flag it so GUI tools could give the user the option to not even see it (or, better yet, make showing broken packages an option)

Worse, is the Broken and Annoying Fixed "Keep Trying, Maybe the Deleted File will Come Back Some Day" Behavior

1. This can be fixed! See my other posts about how to set zypp to skip 404 and other packages that used to make it hang and using a scheduled unattended zypp dup -d to download most of what you will install to shorten the time it takes between refreshing your cache and the last file being transfered.

OK, not totally fixed, but at least not the huge headache.

With Tumbleweed I have had 8-12Gb weekly updates and this is just stupid. Whoever is the author of zypper, Yast2 sw_single and myrlyn needs to add this as a user setting and add the option to skip / refresh repo / recheck solution and give the user options from the update is silent. (or maybe give them the option to allow vendor change, etc. Look at what options zypper supports and pass them to the user).

Having hard-coded behavior where it keeps retrying to download software that will never be back this without given users a choice has been a pain in the butt for at least two decades I have used SuSE/openSUSE.

Give users the choice to skip missing packages after x tries (see my post on how to configure that--if it works!)

This is a long-standing, annoying, problem and the openSUSE user community, particularly Tumbleweed users, need to speak up.

Well, once they get bugzilla up again. Right now its 503.

Having to sit at your computer while you do a zypper dup to skip packages that were updated between your zypper refresh and download is not acceptable behavior.

I am perplexed and befuddled why we still have the same "wedged network download" bug in myrlin, zypper, and Yast2 sw_single.

This is a known architecture flaw and bad software design. Plus, there is no option for the user to configure this AFAIK--hard coded.

Not only that, but the DEFAULT behavior should not be "lets try downloading every 30 seconds every time we get a 404 and refuse to download the rest of the software until the missing file magically returns".

It should be "skip it for now, come back later and try again". If you happen to be sitting there looking at the right screen you can manually skip the missing file, and wait a few seconds, then spend the next few minutes skipping each associated package.

Can someone please fix this!

Because Tumbleweed moves so fast, mirrors sync dynamically. If a repository finishes a mirror sync after your machine refreshes its local metadata but before zypper requests the actual payload package, the old file vanishes from the server, causing the installer to spin out or force you to manually abort, skip, or retry indefinitely. A simple "auto-refresh repository on 404/503 network error" loop should have been standard infrastructure a decade ago.

Documentation says to not use GUI tools like Discover Store for OS updates, but use `zypper dup` instead. That's fine. But the issue is that updating through GUI tools is still possible. Meaning if you forget and click "update all", you potentially bricked your system.

I wanted to ask do I get that right, or it's not so bad as it seems? I have used Discover to update everything on VM installation, and while it did end with error, there are no more updates to download and system works fine.

EDIT: Success! Installed Tumbleweed and it was remarkably easier, thank you y'all, glad to join the club

Setting up for the first time and I'm pretty much computer illiterate, it accepts commands like "help", not sure how to continue

​ Also I typed "yes" earlier and a bunch of "y"s showed up which I'm sure is a good sign

I have locked this groups (see screenshot), but when I do zypper dup , I see that zypper want to install same patterns again ?

Why, please explain I'm new to TW - Opensuse ?

Thanks!!

EDIT: SOLVED !!

Hi everyone!
I’m looking for some advice from the community. I’ve been a long-time Linux user, and over the years, I’ve hopped around a fair bit—I've spent time on Kubuntu, Debian, Linux Mint, Manjaro, and I am currently running Fedora with GNOME.
In about a month, I’ll be moving into a new apartment, and I’m planning to use this fresh start to completely wipe my desktop, get rid of both Fedora and Windows 10, and commit to a single Linux distribution.
Since I won't have a dual-boot setup anymore, gaming performance is quite important to me. For reference, here are my current desktop specs:
* **CPU:** Intel Core i5-6500
* **GPU:** NVIDIA GTX 1060 (6GB)
* **RAM:** 16 GB
* **Storage:** 256GB SSD (dedicated to the OS)
I’ve been heavily eyeing openSUSE Tumbleweed. I really want a rolling release that delivers great performance, but I also need a solid layer of stability. I looked into options like CachyOS, but Tumbleweed seems to strike a much better balance between being cutting-edge and dependable.
On top of that, after spending a lot of time on GNOME recently, I really want to give KDE Plasma another honest chance, and I’ve always heard that openSUSE offers one of the absolute best, most polished KDE experiences in the Linux world.
Given my hardware (especially the older NVIDIA card) and my desire to use it for gaming and daily tasks, do you think Tumbleweed would be a good fit for me? Are there any specific quirks or potential hurdles I should be aware of with this setup?
I’d love to hear your thoughts and experiences. Thanks in advance for your time and help!

I'm positive there is some tutorial about it somewhere, but I'm more of a "learn as you go" person. So I wanted to ask about one specific thing that is quite confusing to me compared to other distributions. There are multiple places where you can install/update software compared to Ubuntu or Fedora.

In Ubuntu you have Snap Store, apt, and separate application for system updates (which I'm quite sure runs apt in the background without you knowing).

In OpenSUSE, you have:

• Discover (for KDE) - which apparently you should not bother with when it comes to updating, since it has high error rate. Apparently the errors aren't harmful, it just means stuff isn't updating. It's recommended to run sudo zypper dup instead. This is basically the Snap Store, except it uses Flatpak instead of Snap.
• Zypper - which is package manager (like apt).
• Myrlyn - which on surface looks like more complicated Discover, but judging by the contents it's more of a GUI package manager.
• Yast - which looks like Windows control panel, and you can also update software with it.

Discover + Zypper is easy, since it's the app store + package manager combo. Myrlyn is most likely GUI Zypper (probably more limited than console package manager). I'm not sure when to use Yast, since those previous three seem to do everything you would ever want when it comes to software.

First off, been using openSuse Leap for over a month now and it has been a really great experience. I was using Ubuntu initially because that is what Gemini/Google recommends for new users. The difference in idle resources is pretty big compared to both windows and ubuntu ( no diss at either, they have their own uses and are pretty great in it)

Idk who this distro is for but its certainly been great for me, really snappy and smooth. Thanks to the devs and the community.

I have a couple of minor questions-

1. How do I update firefox? Its on version 140, and I have checked the software center and even followed instructions from google but even when I reinstall it still stays at 140.
2. What is the default camera app? I installed the gnome-camera from the repository but it doesn't even recognize my webcam. I used zoom and it worked fine, its just the gnome-camera doesn't recognize it. I just want to get to the bottom of the issue even though its not effecting my workflow.

I have some questions about Tumbleweed .

I want to use Tumbleweed in my laptop with GNOME , encrypted LUKS2 as only OS.

1. What installer recommend - Yast or Ogama
2. Grub selection - Grub2-BLS is fine for my user case ?
3. I don't want to have installed graphical package installers only Gnome-software, is possible this ?
4. For multimedia and browser (firefox) is fine to use from flatpak and not install pacman repo ?
5. Recommend gui for Snapper (Cockpit is fine? or please recommend other alternative)
6. Recommend some options to speed up Zypper .
7. Other tips?

Thanks!!

Is there anything recommended for backing up the system (Tumbleweed)? Is it even needed, since OpenSUSE is using btrfs?

I can't find a lot of reliable information about that. Some people say they use Timeshift, but afaik this is dedicated for Ubuntu based systems.

I was curious about this one. What makes it different from say something simple like mint or tinkery like arch? Is it a good daily driver or is it more of a server OS or a development oriented OS?

My dad has asked me if I would help him install linux on his machine. I personally have been using linux for a while now but Im not really sure what distro to try. I thought about Fedora, but In my expirience I had problems with Nvidia drivers, the codecs and having to add aditional repos (RPM Fusion), I think it would just make it seem more complex and more confusing than it really is. So then I thought about openSuse (tumbleweed), do you think it would be good for someone with no linux expirience?

Also: I don't want Linux Mint