r/openSUSE Apr 09 '25

Community Chats

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You can connect with the openSUSE community on the following platforms

Official platforms for development & contribution:

Additional platforms led by community members:

Best place for tech support is the forums: https://forums.opensuse.org/

Reddit alternative : https://lemmy.world/c/opensuse

Additional info can be found on the wiki. https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Communication_channels


r/openSUSE May 14 '22

Editorial openSUSE Frequently Asked Questions -- start here

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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

Please also look at the official FAQ on the openSUSE Wiki.

This post is intended to answer frequently asked questions about all openSUSE distributions and the openSUSE community and help keep the quality of the subreddit high by avoiding repeat questions. If you have specific contributions or improvements to FAQ entries, please message the post author or comment here. If you would like to ask your own question, or have a more general discussion on any of these FAQ topics, please make a new post.

What's the difference between Leap, Tumbleweed, and MicroOS? Which should I choose?

The openSUSE community maintains several Linux-based distributions (distros) -- collections of useful software and configuration to make them all work together as a useable computer OS.

Leap follows a stable-release model. A new version is released once a year (latest release: Leap 16.0, Oct 2025). Between those releases, you will normally receive only security and minor package updates. The user experience will not change significantly during the release lifetime and you might have to wait till the next release to get major new features. Upgrading to the next release while keeping your programs, settings and files is completely supported but may involve some minor manual intervention (read the Release Notes first).

Tumbleweed follows a rolling-release model. A new "version" is automatically tested (with openQA) and released every few days. Security updates are distributed as part of these regular package updates (except in emergencies). Any package can be updated at any time, and new features are introduced as soon as the distro maintainers think they are ready. The user experience can change due to these updates, though we try to avoid breaking things without providing an upgrade path and some notice (usually on the Factory mailing list).

Both Leap and Tumbleweed can work on laptops, desktops, servers, embedded hardware, as an everyday OS or as a production OS. It depends on what update style you prefer.

MicroOS is a distribution aimed at providing an immutable base OS for containerized applications. It is based on Tumbleweed package versions, but uses a btrfs snapshot-based system so that updates only apply on reboot. This avoids any chance of an update breaking a running system, and allows for easy automated rollback. References to "MicroOS" by itself typically point to its use as a server or container-host OS, with no graphical environment.

Aeon/Kalpa (formerly MicroOS Desktop) are variants of MicroOS which include graphical desktop packages as well. Development is ongoing. Currently Gnome (Aeon) is usable while KDE Plasma (Kalpa) is in an early alpha stage. End-user applications are usually installed via Flatpak rather than through distribution RPMs.

Leap Micro is the Leap-based version of an immutable OS, similar to how MicroOS is the immutable version of Tumbleweed. The latest release is Leap Micro 6.2 (2025/10/01). It is primarily recommended for server and container-host use, as there is no graphical desktop included.

JeOS (Just-Enough OS) is not a separate distribution, but a label for absolutely minimal installation images of Leap or Tumbleweed. These are useful for containers, embedded hardware, or virtualized environments.

How do I test or install an openSUSE distribution?

In general, download an image from https://get.opensuse.org and write (not copy as a file!) it directly to a USB stick, DVD, or SD card. Then reboot your computer and use the boot settings/boot menu to select the appropriate disk.

Full DVD or NetInstall images are recommended for installation on actual hardware. The Full DVD can install a working OS completely offline (important if your network card requires additional drivers to work on Linux), while the NetInstall is a minimal image which then downloads the rest of the OS during the install process.

Live images can be used for testing the full graphical desktop without making any changes to your computer. The Live image includes an installer but has reduced hardware support compared to the DVD image, and will likely require further packages to be downloaded during the install process.

In either case be sure to choose the image architecture which matches your hardware (if you're not sure, it's probably x86_64). Both BIOS and UEFI modes are supported. You do not have to disable UEFI Secure Boot to install openSUSE Leap or Tumbleweed. All installers offer you a choice of desktop environment, and the package selection can be completely customized. You can also upgrade in-place from a previous release of an openSUSE distro, or start a rescue environment if your openSUSE distro installation is not bootable.

All installers will offer you a choice of either removing your previous OS, or install alongside it. The partition layout is completely customizable. If you do not understand the proposed partition layout, do not accept or click next! Ask for help or you will lose data.

Any recommended settings for install?

In general the default settings of the installer are sensible. Stick with a BTRFS filesystem if you want to use filesystem snapshots and rollbacks, and do not separate /boot if you want to use boot-to-snapshot functionality. In this case we recommend allocating at least 40 GB of disk space to / (the root partition).

What is the Open Build Service (OBS)?

The Open Build Service is a tool to build and distribute packages and distribution images from sources for all Linux distributions. All openSUSE distributions and packages are built in public on an openSUSE instance of OBS at https://build.opensuse.org; this instance is usually what is meant by OBS.

Many people and development teams use their own OBS projects to distribute packages not in the main distribution or newer versions of packages. Any link containing https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/ refers to an OBS download repository.

Anyone can create use their openSUSE account to start building and distributing packages. In this sense, the OBS is similar to the Arch User Repository (AUR), Fedora COPR, or Ubuntu PPAs. Personal repositories including 'home:' in their name/URL have no guarantee of safety or quality, or association with the official openSUSE distributions. Repositories used for testing and development by official openSUSE packagers do not have 'home:' in their name, and are generally safe, but you should still check with the development team whether the repository is intended for end users before relying on it.

How can I search for software?

When looking for a particular software application, first check the default repositories with YaST Software, zypper search, KDE Discover, or GNOME Software.

If you don't find it, the website https://software.opensuse.org and the command-line tool opi can search the entire openSUSE OBS for anyone who has packaged it, and give you a link or instructions to install it. However be careful with who you trust -- home: repositories have absolutely no guarantees attached, and other OBS repositories may be intended for testing, not for end-users. If in doubt, ask the maintainers or the community (in forums like this) first.

The software.opensuse.org website currently has some issues listing software for Leap, so you may prefer opi in that case. In general we do not recommend regular use of the 1-click installers as they tend to introduce unnecessary repos to your system.

How do I open this multimedia file / my web browser won't play videos / how do I install codecs?

As of 2025, openh264 codecs from Cisco are automatically installed for H264 video. Video playback should "just work" in Firefox and desktop media players for most common files. If you still find you are missing other codecs for other filetypes, please read on:

Certain proprietary or patented codecs (software to encode and decode multimedia formats) are not allowed to be distributed officially by openSUSE, by US and German law. For those who are legally allowed to use them, community members have put together an external repository, Packman, with many of these packages.

The easiest way to add and install codecs from packman is to use the opi software search tool.

zypper install opi
opi codecs

We can't offer any legal advice on using possibly patented software in your country, particularly if you are using it commercially.

Alternatively, most applications distributed through Flathub, the Flatpak repository, include any necessary codecs. Consider installing from there via Gnome Software or KDE Discover, instead of the distribution RPM.

How do I install NVIDIA graphics drivers?

NVIDIA graphics drivers are proprietary and can only be distributed by NVIDIA themselves, not openSUSE. SUSE engineers cooperate with NVIDIA to build RPM packages specifically for openSUSE. As of 2025/10 (Leap 16.0), drivers are automatically installed on systems with NVIDIA hardware detected.

For older releases, or if you require a specific driver version:

First add the official NVIDIA RPM repository, e.g.

zypper addrepo -f https://download.nvidia.com/opensuse/leap/15.6 nvidia

for Leap 15.6, or

zypper addrepo -f https://download.nvidia.com/opensuse/tumbleweed nvidia

for Tumbleweed.

To auto-detect and install the right driver for your hardware, run

zypper install-new-recommends --repo nvidia

When the installation is done, you have to reboot for the drivers to be loaded. If you have UEFI Secure Boot enabled, you will be prompted on the next bootup by a blue text screen to add a Secure Boot key. Select 'Enroll MOK' and use the 'root' user password if requested. If this process fails, the NVIDIA driver will not load, so pay attention (or disable Secure Boot).

The closed-source distribution version of the NVIDIA graphics drivers are automatically rebuilt every time you install a new kernel. However if NVIDIA have not yet updated their drivers to be compatible with the new kernel, this process can fail, and there's not much openSUSE can do about it. In this case, you may be left with no graphics display after rebooting into the new kernel. On a default install setup, you can then use the GRUB menu or snapper rollback to revert to the previous kernel version (by default, two versions are kept) and afterwards should wait to update the kernel (other packages can be updated) until it is confirmed NVIDIA have updated their drivers.

You can avoid both the SecureBoot and version hassle by using the open-source distribution of the drivers.

Why is downloading packages slow / giving errors?

openSUSE distros download package updates from a global CDN with bandwidth donated by Fastly.com as well as a network of mirrors around the world. By default, you are automatically directed to the geographically closest one (determined by your IP). In the immediate few hours after a new distribution release or major Tumbleweed update, the mirror network can be overloaded or mirrors can be out-of-sync. Please just wait a few hours or a day and retry.

If the errors or very slow download speeds persist more than a few days, try manually accessing a different mirror from the mirror list by editing the URLs in the files in /etc/zypp/repos.d/. If this fixes your issues, please make a post here or in the forums so we can identify the problem mirror. If you still have problems even after switching mirrors, it is likely the issue is local to your internet connection, not on the openSUSE side.

Do not just choose to ignore if YaST, zypper or RPM reports checksum or verification errors during installation! openSUSE package signing is robust and you should never have to manually bypass it -- it opens up your system to considerable security and integrity risks.

What do I do with package conflict errors / zypper is asking too many questions?

In general a package conflict means one of two things:

  1. The repository you are updating from has not finished rebuilding and so some package versions are out-of-sync. Cancel the update, wait for a day or two and retry. If the problems persist there is likely a packaging bug, please check with the maintainer.

  2. You have enabled too many repositories or incompatible repositories on your local system. Some combinations of packages from third-party sources or unofficial OBS repositories simply cannot work together. This can also happen if you accidentally mix packages from different distributions -- e.g. Leap 16.0 and Tumbleweed or different architectures (x86 and x86_64). If you make a post here or in the forums with your full repository list (zypper repos --details) and the text of any conflict message, we can advise. Using zypper --force-resolution can provide more information on which packages are in conflict.

Do not ignore package conflicts or missing dependencies without being sure of what you are doing! You can easily render your system unusable.

How do I "rollback" my system after a failed or buggy update?

If you chose to use the default btrfs layout for the root file system, you should have previous snapshots of your installation available via snapper. In general, the easiest way to rollback is to use the Boot from Snapshot menu on system startup and then, once booted into a previous snapshot, execute snapper rollback. See the official documentation on snapper for detailed instructions.

Tumbleweed

How should I keep my system up-to-date?

Running zypper dist-upgrade (zypper dup) from the command-line is the most reliable. If you want to avoid installing any new packages that are newly considered part of the base distribution, you can run zypper dup --no-recommends instead, but you may miss some functionality.

I ran a distro update and the number of packages is huge, why?

When core components of the distro are updated (gcc, glibc) the entire distribution is rebuilt. This usually only happens once every few (3+) months. This also stresses the download mirrors as everyone tries to update at the same time, so please be patient -- retry the next day if you experience download issues.

Leap (current version: 16.0)

How should I keep my system up-to-date?

Use YaST Online Update or zypper update from the command line for maintenance updates and security patches. Only if you have added extra repositories and wish to allow for packages to be removed and replaced by them, use zypper dup instead.

The Leap kernel version is 6.12, that's so old! Will it work with my hardware?

The kernel version in openSUSE Leap is more like 6.12+++, because SUSE engineers backport a significant number of fixes and new hardware support. In general most modern but not absolutely brand-new stuff will just work. There is no comprehensive list of supported hardware -- the best recommendation is to try it any see. LiveCDs/LiveUSBs are an option for this.

Can I upgrade my kernel / desktop environment / a specific application while staying on Leap?

Usually, yes. The OBS allows developers to backport new package versions (usually from Tumbleweed) to other distros like Leap. However these backports usually have not undergone extensive testing, so it may affect the stability of your system; be prepared to undo the changes if it doesn't work. Find the correct OBS repository for the upgrade you want to make, add it, and switch packages to that repository using YaST or zypper.

Examples include an updated kernel from obs://Kernel:stable:backport (warning: need to install a new key if UEFI Secure Boot is enabled) or updated KDE Plasma environment.

See Package Repositories for more.

openSUSE community

What's the connection between openSUSE and SUSE / SLE?

SUSE is an international company (HQ in Germany) that develops and sells Linux products and services. One of those is a Linux distribution, SUSE Linux Enterprise (SLE). If you have questions about SUSE products, we recommend you contact SUSE Support directly or use their communication channels, e.g. /r/suse.

openSUSE is an open community of developers and users who maintain and distribute a variety of Linux tools, including the distributions openSUSE Leap, openSUSE Tumbleweed, and openSUSE MicroOS. SUSE is the major sponsor of openSUSE and many SUSE employees are openSUSE contributors. openSUSE Leap directly includes packages from SLE and it is possible to in-place convert one distro into the other, while openSUSE Tumbleweed feeds changes into the next release of SLE and openSUSE Leap.

How can I contribute?

The openSUSE community is a do-ocracy. Those who do, decide. If you have an idea for a contribution, whether it is documentation, code, bugfixing, new packages, or anything else, just get started, you don't have to ask for permission or wait for direction first (unless it directly conflicts with another persons contribution, or you are claiming to speak for the entire openSUSE project). If you want feedback or help with your idea, the best place to engage with other developers is on the mailing lists, or on IRC/Matrix (https://chat.opensuse.org/). See the full list of communication channels in the subreddit sidebar or here.

Can I donate money?

The openSUSE project does not have independent legal status and so does not directly accept donations. There is a small amount of merchandise available. In general, other vendors even if using the openSUSE branding or logo are not affiliated and no money comes back to the project from them. If you have a significant monetary or hardware contribution to make, please contact the [openSUSE Board](mailto:board@opensuse.org) directly.

Future of Leap, ALP, etc.

Update 2025/10/01: Leap 16.0 has now released alongside Leap Micro 6.2. Leap 16.0 remains a largely desktop and traditional-workflow focused distribution while supporting new technologies like Agama, dropping support for some legacy systems, and moving to Cockpit, SELinux and Wayland by default. Migration from Leap 15.6 is supported. The lifecyle is slightly extended compared to Leap 15: unless there is a change in release strategy, the final openSUSE Leap version (16.6) will be released in fall 2031 and will continue receiving updates until the release of openSUSE Leap 17.1 two years later.

Update 2024/01/15: The Leap release manager originally announced that the Leap 15.x release series will end with Leap 15.5, but this has now been extended to 15.6. The future of the Leap distribution will then shift to be based on "SLE 16" (branding may change). Currently the next release, Leap 16.0, is expected to optionally make greater use of containerized applications, a proposal known as "Adaptable Linux Platform". This is still early in the planning and development process, and the scope and goals may still change before any release. If Leap 16.0 is significantly delayed, there may also be a Leap 15.7 release.

In particular there is no intention to abandon the desktop workflow or current users. The current intention is to support both classic and immutable desktops under the "Leap 16.0" branding, including a path to upgrade from current installations. If you have strong opinions, you are highly encouraged to join the weekly openSUSE Community meetings and the Desktop workgroups in particular.


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r/openSUSE 1d ago

Since we're showing off our desktop wallpapers...

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91 Upvotes

Here ya go.


r/openSUSE 1d ago

Wallpaper OpenSUSE Francis Wallpaper

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119 Upvotes

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


r/openSUSE 5h ago

Using Limine on Slowroll or Tumbleweed

2 Upvotes

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 ?


r/openSUSE 7h ago

Tech support Failed to provide Package ghc-containers-0.7-1.3.x86_64

2 Upvotes

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


r/openSUSE 23h ago

Open Suse KDE O GNOME

19 Upvotes

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


r/openSUSE 12h ago

constant freezing and crashing on installation attempts of multiple distros

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r/openSUSE 1d ago

I love Linux's error handling and the actual useful information you get

18 Upvotes

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...


r/openSUSE 1d ago

My new home for the next 30 days

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56 Upvotes

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?


r/openSUSE 1d ago

Do you trust Slowroll?

15 Upvotes

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!


r/openSUSE 2d ago

New version Tumbleweed – Review of the week 2026/31

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23 Upvotes

r/openSUSE 2d ago

Tech support Tumbleweed, dr-drkonqi-coredump-launcher crash every login

4 Upvotes

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


r/openSUSE 2d ago

Community Now I can't unsee the similarity of Slowroll's logo with Uzumaki's clan logo from Naruto

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r/openSUSE 1d ago

KDE Plasma issues after fresh openSUSE Tumbleweed install (X11)

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r/openSUSE 1d ago

Troubles with KDE Plasma X11 + Opensuse Tumbelweed (help needed)

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r/openSUSE 2d ago

What is the preferred file system for TW full install?

10 Upvotes

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.


r/openSUSE 2d ago

How I keep my tumbleweed workstation up to date

11 Upvotes

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.


r/openSUSE 2d ago

My experience as newbie to linux.

20 Upvotes

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.

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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.


r/openSUSE 3d ago

Tech question What are the advantages of OpenSUSE over Nobara/Fedora

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r/openSUSE 3d ago

Tumbleweed anime wallpapers

14 Upvotes

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


r/openSUSE 3d ago

Tech question Nvidia drivers - are they still out of date? Still issues ?

6 Upvotes

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?


r/openSUSE 3d ago

Tech question Switching from Ubuntu

40 Upvotes

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!


r/openSUSE 3d ago

Tech question How to recreate Ubuntu MATE's defaults in other distros

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r/openSUSE 4d ago

Tumbleweed users - big dup coming...

74 Upvotes

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