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I've finally settled on openSUSE Tumbleweed with KDE Plasma as my daily driver, and I'm honestly loving it. It feels like the perfect combination for my needs and for my old HP ProBook 6360b.

Before this, I was using Debian 13 Trixie (Stable) with XFCE, and to be honest, I really liked it too. The only reason I switched was because I wanted newer packages while still having a system that's reliable.

For a while, I thought Linux was the problem because I kept getting random freezes and even kernel panics across different distributions. It turned out the real culprit was my old 4 GB RAM stick, which had started to fail.

I replaced it with a single 8 GB RAM stick, and since then everything has been running great on Tumbleweed.

I'm looking forward to learning more about programming, setting up my development environment, and playing some games on Linux.

If you have any tips, recommended packages, or things every Tumbleweed + KDE user should know, I'd love to hear them!

I am buying a new desktop computer in a month or two. It will be bought with openSuse preinstalled. It will be used for routemaking, some gaming and general use at home.

How shall I think when choosing storage and memory. Is it better to have several storage units that are smaller or a big one. Should all be SSD? Will prices on RAM continue to rise so its better to buy more at once instead of upgrading later?

Thanks in advance.

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.

Long story short, I accidentally nuked my EFI boot partition.

I managed to get load up a live, recreate the EFI partition, chroot in, do a shim-install, and update the fstab with the new UUID.

However, when I try to boot, it is still trying to find that old EFI partition (A start job is running for dev/disk/by-uuid/OLD-UUID) then fails to boot.

I checked /etc/default/grub for a resume parameter but found none. I also remade the grub config for good measure too. No dice.

Any and all help would be very much appreciated.

Ive had linux mint for 4months now. And I think openSUSE is a better fit for me. I have 2 Ssd, both EXT4. One is mounted as my steam and games library. Do I have to or should I format it to BTRFS too? Or can I just mount it as my Steam library again when Im done installing openSUSE?

One of the recent updates seems to have nuked hibernate.

Clicking on Hibernate in the KDE Start Menu does nothing.

The Hibernate button on the lock screen has vanished.

sudo systemctl hibernate

This returns:

Call to Hibernate failed: Sleep verb 'hibernate' is not configured or configuration is not supported by kernel

Here are the installed kernels, I've tried with both and it doesn't work:

S  | Name           | Type    | Version    | Arch   | Repository
---+----------------+---------+------------+--------+----------------------
i+ | kernel-default | package | 7.0.12-1.1 | x86_64 | (System Packages)
i+ | kernel-default | package | 7.1.2-1.1  | x86_64 | Main Repository (OSS)

What do I do? Thanks :-)

Hello. I recently migrated to OpenSUSE after a Kubuntu installation was corrupted and would no longer boot. I am attempting to get updates and all that sorted, but it appears that something went wrong along the way with installation as the "repo-oss" repository is supposedly invalid with no metadata being retrieved. I have copied and pasted the result of trying to refresh zypper, the contents of my Leap.repo file, and the result of "zypper lr --url". Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance!

>:~> sudo zypper refresh

>Refreshing service 'openSUSE'.

>Looking for gpg keys in repository repo-openh264 (16.0).

>gpgkey=https://codecs.opensuse.org/openh264/openSUSE_Leap_16/repodata/repomd.xml.key

>Retrieving repository 'repo-openh264 (16.0)' metadata ..................................................[done]

>Building repository 'repo-openh264 (16.0)' cache .......................................................[done]

>Looking for gpg keys in repository repo-oss (16.0).

>gpgkey=http://cdn.opensuse.org/distribution/leap/16.0/repo/oss/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml.key

>Retrieving repository 'repo-oss (16.0)' metadata .......................................................[done]

>Building repository 'repo-oss (16.0)' cache ............................................................[done]

>Retrieving repository 'repo-oss' metadata .............................................................[error]

>Repository 'repo-oss' is invalid.

>[repo-oss|http://opensuse.org/] Failed to retrieve new repository metadata.

>History:

>- [repo-oss|http://opensuse.org/] Repository type can't be determined.

>Please check if the URIs defined for this repository are pointing to a valid repository.

>Skipping repository 'repo-oss' because of the above error.

>Some of the repositories have not been refreshed because of an error.

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>GNU nano 8.6 /etc/zypp/repos.d/Leap.repo

>[Leap]

>name=Leap 16.0

>enabled=0

>autorefresh=0

>baseurl=http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/leap/16.0/repo/oss

>type=rpm-md

>keeppackages=0

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># | Alias | Name | Enabled | GPG Check | Refresh | URI

>--+-----------------------------+---------------------------+---------+-----------+---------+-------------------------------------------------------------------------

>1 | Leap | Leap 16.0 | No | ---- | ---- | http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/leap/16.0/repo/oss

>2 | brave-browser | Brave Browser | Yes | (r ) Yes | Yes | https://brave-browser-rpm-release.s3.brave.com/x86_64

>3 | openSUSE:repo-non-oss | repo-non-oss (16.0) | No | ---- | ---- | http://cdn.opensuse.org/distribution/leap/16.0/repo/non-oss/x86_64

>4 | openSUSE:repo-non-oss-debug | repo-non-oss-debug (16.0) | No | ---- | ---- | http://cdn.opensuse.org/debug/distribution/leap/16.0/repo/non-oss/x86_64

>5 | openSUSE:repo-openh264 | repo-openh264 (16.0) | Yes | (r ) Yes | Yes | https://codecs.opensuse.org/openh264/openSUSE_Leap_16

>6 | openSUSE:repo-oss | repo-oss (16.0) | Yes | (r ) Yes | Yes | http://cdn.opensuse.org/distribution/leap/16.0/repo/oss/x86_64

>7 | openSUSE:repo-oss-debug | repo-oss-debug (16.0) | No | ---- | ---- | http://cdn.opensuse.org/debug/distribution/leap/16.0/repo/oss/x86_64

>8 | openSUSE:repo-oss-source | repo-oss-source (16.0) | No | ---- | ---- | http://cdn.opensuse.org/source/distribution/leap/16.0/repo/oss

>9 | repo-oss | repo-oss | Yes | ( p) Yes | Yes | http://opensuse.org/

I could see tumbleweed becoming my daily driver (Mint has been for the past 20 years or so). Liked the installer, although I was a little uncertain which drive tumbleweed was going to install to). Most distros give you some type of final warning that everything on drive sdx will be erased. I like the secure boot compatibility out of the box and the automatic installation of proprietary nvidia drivers. First rolling release linux I've ever installed. I'm booting into tumbleweed through my Mint grub menu. Interesting that Mint's OS prober did not detect tumbleweed; I created a 40_custom file that works fine, however. Looking forward to learning more about openSUSE.

Hi friends, I recently switched from Fedora to Tumbleweed but I have a problem: my RTX 3050 How do I install Nvidia closed-source drivers for my graphics card?

Hey everyone,

I've been testing openSUSE Tumbleweed fresh installations and found two reproducible bugs with Snapshot 20260628 on ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 4 hardware. Posting here because it might save others some headaches.

Hardware:

• Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 4 (20FB003VGE)
• CPU: Intel Core i5-6200U (Skylake-U)
• GPU: Intel HD Graphics 520 (integrated)
• RAM: 8 GB DDR3
• Storage: 256 GB M.2 PCIe

ISO used:
openSUSE-Tumbleweed-DVD-x86_64-Snapshot20260628-Media

Installation settings:

• KDE Plasma Desktop
• Default partitioning (Btrfs)
• Language/keyboard: German (DE) throughout

Bug 1: Keyboard layout silently resets to English after installation

During installation everything is set to German. After the first reboot to the login screen, the keyboard layout has switched back to English (US) without warning. Login fails immediately because special characters are mapped differently. You have to manually switch the layout at the login screen to get in.

Bug 2: Black KDE desktop after first update + reboot

After logging in, changing the keyboard layout back to German, installing all available updates and rebooting:

• Desktop is completely black
• Taskbar/panel is gone
• Desktop widgets are gone
• Right-click context menu still works (so the session IS running)
• WLAN drops and doesn't reconnect automatically

Reproducibility:

✅ Reproduced on ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 4 #1 (20FB003VGE, i5-6200U)
✅ Reproduced on ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 4 #2 (same model, same specs)
✅ Same symptom pattern on ThinkPad T490s (i5-8265U, Whiskey Lake-U)

❌ NOT affected: existing TW installation on identical X1 Carbon Gen 4 hardware, running continuously for ~1 year with 6000+ updates – boots and runs perfectly fine

This strongly suggests the issue is specific to fresh installations with the current snapshot, not the hardware itself.

Workaround so far:
None found. Rolled back to alternative distros on affected machines.

Anyone else seeing this? Is there already a Bugzilla entry for this? Happy to provide additional logs if someone can point me to what's needed.

Hi openSUSErs, just fyi, after sometime of testing we've finally released a new Discord version based on the June client update.

This client now works like the Steam launcher, it installs a downloader and the rust updater to your system, and then, when you open discord, it downloads all the necessary binaries to ~/.config/discord just like Steam does with proton runtimes, prefixes, etc.

For now it's only available on games:tools, I hope it gets accepted on Factory after some fighting.

If you want to try this new version, please delete ~/.config/discord and ~/config/autostart/discord.desktop to avoid issues from the older openSUSE/packman clients.

https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/games:tools/discord

Made with ❤️ for the openSUSE community.

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Left is from Flatpak, right is from Zypper. The same happens to LibreOffice apps as well. Zypper provides them in some outdated form where UI elements look as if they are from 1990. It's a fresh install.

Guys, I've had a decent experience with Tumbleweed for years, but the Kernel 7 update forward has broken my Creative Labs EMU20k2 [Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium Series].

The card is detected, but I have no sound capabilities. I think the motherboard audio is even detected, but there is no X-Fi to output to my analog speakers. It's not available.

I've had problems with easy effects in the past, which wouldn't reset bad settings, so I deleted the software, and everything worked fine until Kernel 7. IDK if there's something easy effects screwed up, or it's the OS itself. Does anyone have a working X-Fi? Then the OS broke something on my end, and IDK how to fix it. There's years of forum posts about Linux breaking the X-Fi, and nothing seems to be relevant to what I'm experiencing. I've even heard KDE may be responsible.

Similar to easy effects, Goverlay has been a bit of a mess with stable updates, and wouldn't uninstall optiscaler properly from a game. I had to manually delete a bunch of files, and reset the program. That said, the tool says I have Optiscaler 0.7.9 installed (globally?), and I have no idea how to delete it, or where the files are located. Edit: I solved this one, there's some weird temp folder full of numbered directories like 2346321, and that's where the optiscaler files were.

It seems my system is becoming a mess of old files causing problems that I can't fix. What's the answer to this situation?

I've seen this question asked many times across various distros, and the answers seem to vary wildly from "This is a terrible idea, never do it" to "It's totally fine, I run several DEs and never have any issues".

I'm not sure if old, solved issues are still haunting us through word-of-mouth or if it varies by distro or what.

Is this safe to do on Tumbleweed? I'm pretty happy with Plasma, but curious to try out Hyprland and Cosmic.