I already get very good performance in games I see meny people use gamemode is it even worth installing

Is the performance increase with gamemode noticeable

This is not a support question just wondering if it's worth installing if I already get perfect performance

After some weeks testing OpenSuse Tumbleweed in a VM over Windows, I loved it so much that I decided to make it my main OS. So for the first time in my life, I am getting rid of Windows. I just bought this mini PC https://www.amazon.fr/gp/product/B0B24XQ8W9/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Now my question is pretty basic, what is the optimal disk partition? And is there anything I should do before or after the installation?

And two more questions, I was very used to work with MS Office and OneDrive. Is LibreOffice the best alternative to Office?
I use OneDrive just to synchronize my KeePass database between my PC and my Android phone. I wanted to replace OneDrive with Mega, but I realized that the free account of Mega does not allow to synchronize files in Android. What is the best alternative then?

After the 6.2 update (which added the multi monitor brightness control, which simply fakes the effect by dimming the output even after installing DDC/CI packages), my monitors can't turn off properly when PC is locked. It either never turns off and shows a faint faked-low-brightness image of the lockscreen on all screens, or does actually turn off displays, only to turn it back on (fake low brightness and all) after some time.

Does anyone else has issue? Googling didn't help...

Full AMD desktop PC.

Hi everyone!

Really enjoying my unexpected journey with openSUSE so far!

I picked up a Streamdeck Mini in the summer with the idea of using it to push a few shortcuts in VS Code. After much trial and error, I finally got it running using an older Python script. It's nice. But the minimalist in me would prefer something a little less glamorous without the fancy icons!

I've been looking at options like this (generic product image) which are exactly what I have in mind:

https://preview.redd.it/qoyocu425pzd1.png?width=464&format=png&auto=webp&s=d9e5bd3b21a414a12fa02608374e77739f25015d

They seem to all require QMK and from what I gather the firmware support on OpenSUSE is hit and miss for this.

So although it's a long short, I thought I would ask: anyone here using a similar piece of HW and get it running without too much hair-pulling and general aggravation?

Thank you!

Well pretty much the title. I have been trying it out for 10-12 days now. What kind of devices is this distro optimized for? Because its buttery smooth and works great on my laptop. My workloads run on par with my newer and better specced work laptop( windows 11) which is insane.

And how come people don't recommend it more often? I didn't even know about OpenSUSE till maybe a month ago when someone suggested it on another subreddit. I was a windows person until recently and initially I tried out Fedora which also runs well but they had other issues.

Although granted I don't play games, so maybe the experience will be different for other folks.

Why is it that when looking at the immutable versions, Kalpa appears to be the second class citizen compared to Aeon when Tumbleweed is widely regarded as one of the best or even the best KDE distribution available? Aeon is in RC while Kalpa remains at alpha with no apparent activity.

Is it because corporate like Gnome due to its lack of flexibility when it comes to users messing with it? Do the developers feel Gnome fits the concept better for the same reason? Why does the DE even matter from a development POV?

I don't do Gnome. I don't like the workflow. I don't like the inflexibility. I don't like the stuff breaking with new releases when you try to fix that inflexibility. I don't like the attitude of developers and (some) users - though that's an added 'bonus' and not typically a dealbreaker if I'd like the experience myself and the previous point would not exist.

I like experimenting. I like trying new things, learning new things. But I'll be damned if I got back to Fedora or leave my KDE behind. I'd rather try Nix. Why can't we just have MicroOS Desktop with a choice of DE and instead have 2 products, of which one appears to be left on lifesupport?

Btw, as a veteran linuxer myself I also found openSUSE installer a bit uh.. well, overwhelming, so I can't blame this new linuxer redditor who just wanted to come linuxing with openSUSE their first. It's a shame losing people from our community just because of a minor thing such as hard installation process..

Tumbleweed, on Wayland, do I need to do anything with polkit or something?

It simply does not recognize the protocol despite having KIO-Admin installed. I am very annoyed.

Having issues with both.

https://preview.redd.it/v943empj6izd1.png?width=1918&format=png&auto=webp&s=51f58479ddfb340832d619ebc1d6ddfe513fe2fd

Edit: .desktop file does exist in /home/Nonkl/.local/share/plasma_icons/

i was waiting for years.. and i just noticed its now working (at least the scanning part and adding fingers)

EDIT: i can enroll fingerprints yet unlock/login doesnt work with it ;/

how to create the custom partition in installation phase of OpenSus micro os.Mean for example I want only 100Gb for the /var where its default is 4**GB how to just give 100G for that var By the way iam using the ISO image for this.

Hi, I am running Tumbleweed in VirtualBox, and I love it!
But very often, I am facing this problem: The pointer of my mouse is shown as a small screenshot of the current window instead of showing the arrow, which is really annoying. See the attached video.
Any clue about this problem?

https://reddit.com/link/1glb8x3/video/s3y6ah64zczd1/player

First my Bluetooth adapter for xbox controller broke right after installing opensuse tumbleweed and now my flash drive with a live system broke too? Genuinely what is happening? I'm so confused I've been using them for years.

Hi all,

I am a (mostly) happy user of OpenSUSE TW / Plasma 6. However, after a recent slew of updates, some of the apps I regularly use have become unusable due to very poor font rendering. I have tried to find any solution, and it seems that the only common theme is that they are all GTK4 apps using the new GNOME 47 platform.

For example: Inkscape uses GNOME 47, but it's a GTK3 app -- it looks fine

Gear Lever is a GTK4 app but it still uses GNOME platform 46 for now -- it looks fine

Flatseal, Amberol and other GTK4 apps using GNOME platform 47 all have horrible smeary fonts. This is especially noticeable with smaller font sizes and thinner fonts, e.g. in tooltips.

It only happens under Wayland, if I switch to X11 (or disable apps' access to the Wayland socket using Flatseal) they look fine.

Has anyone else encountered this issue and if yes, were you able to fix it?

Get this screen when i run a zypper dup or zypper in package once completed (or sometimes when just changing widgets or icons) , any suggestions??

https://preview.redd.it/f3tryopor3261.jpg?width=1080&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=03074075845d1a4e7300ef8a88e688eed67df889

Just a general question. I run Leap 15.6 on 2 machines. My main daily driver workstation, which is a vfx production machine. And a gaming laptop.

I'm always super nervous about updating my workstation, it seems every time something breaks. Nvidia related usually or I've had random fstab issues where I cannot boot and it fails to mount disks. Have no idea why this happens.

For my laptop, its not an essential daily driver but I sometimes don't update for a few weeks and the amount of updates are huge.

I went with Leap because I need stable. For day to day it very much is, but when I don't update for a few weeks I get super anxious doing it. Just curious what others do to keep on top of their system.

Hello,

I tried using Gnome Boxes V45/47 (local install / Flatpak) again today and to my surprise it won't let me create a VM. I tried both the Flatpak and the locally installed version of it, to no avail. Trying to do this either automated or manually results in the following error - NO KVM on Leap 15.6 & Ubuntu 24.10:

https://preview.redd.it/zq9cpvw2f1yb1.png?width=550&format=png&auto=webp&s=673902674bd3132ef61f9593b674fa98ee17ca1c

The error happens for both the Flatpak and for the locally installed version, and in both cases this is the output of gnome-boxes --checks:

(org.gnome.Boxes:2): Boxes-WARNING **: 03:53:36.685: util-app.vala:422: Failed to execute child process ?restorecon? (No such file or directory)

The CPU is capable of virtualization: yes

The KVM module is loaded: no

Libvirt KVM guest available: no

Boxes storage pool available: no

Could not get “gnome-boxes” storage pool information from libvirt. Make sure “virsh -c qemu:///session pool-dumpxml gnome-boxes” is working.

The SELinux context is default: no

According to that output there seems to be quite a few things missing. I haven't experienced this issue in the past, but it seems like it's a known case for other people:

• https://askubuntu.com/questions/1519728/no-kvm-error-in-gnome-boxes-after-modifying-an-xml-file-for-a-deleted-virtua
• https://www.reddit.com/r/Ubuntu/comments/192poxb/gnome_boxes_isnt_working_as_deb_or_flatpak_but/
• https://www.reddit.com/r/pop_os/comments/17mjtvr/no_kvm/
• https://hrishikeshpathak.com/tips/solve-gnome-boxes-virtualization-settings-are-unavailable-on-your-system/
• https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-boxes/+bug/2076917
• https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-boxes/-/issues/1094

The solution / workaround is actually in one of the links above. On Ubuntu you have to manually perform: sudo apt install qemu-kvm libvirt-daemon-system libvirt-clients bridge-utils

I tested this on my Ubuntu 24.10 laptop, which was experiencing the same issue that I am seeing right now on my Suse box, and on Ubuntu the above did indeed fix the issue. Gnome Boxes Flatpak works on Ubuntu now.

Questions:

A) What is the correct or clean or minimalistic approach to do the same on Leap 15.6? Any recommendations?

B) Is this a bug? I heard that libvirt might be phased out in the future (don't quote me on that). I did not experience any of this before when I was still on Leap 15.5 using an older version of Boxes.

C) Shouldn't the Flatpak include all of the necessary dependencies, libs etc.?

Cheers

Here's my attempt at retracing what could be the issue:

• Game ran very poorly
• Saw somewhere in settings Vulkan isn't working
• Installed nvidia drivers directly from nvidia (gtx 1070)
• Changed a few boot options (i think something like drm=1 and noveaou blacklist=1)
• Works perfectly fine
• Update
• Says something about removing nvidia drivers and installing new ones
• Reboot
• Blackscreen after login

Not sure if it's the nvidia drivers but I guess that would make the most sense. I have no old snapshots in my boot menu to chose from. I do have timeshift backups though (hopefully put them on daily).

Any ideas? I'll probably be able to use the backup if I somehow acquire a live USB but I would most likely lose data. I did already attempt to bring the boot options back to default but it didn't seem to work, though I wasn't fully sure what were the default ones.

Even if I fix it, how do I update without the system breaking?

I am interested in trying Aeon with the intention of making it my daily driver. But, I have a few questions.

First and foremost, I have a 1TB ssd that is currently partition with a 100GB / partition and a 900GB home partition. Will Aeon work with that or will I have to resort to the entire disk being partitioned in Aeon's way and I restore my current home from backup?

I currently use flatpaks, so that is not a problem, but I have a few appimage applications. Since these are currently installed in my home directory, I assume they will still work, but wanted to verify.

Finally, I use Timeshift to back up my home directory, will that still work or is there an alternative?

Thanks in advance!

EDIT: Thanks for all of the responses, especially pointing me to r/AeonDesktop !

My laptop screen goes blank after a couple minutes and I have to log back in which is kind of annoying.

I changed the settings in power manager but the settings don't actually apply. I set the screen blank time to 30 mins and unchecked the screen lock option but it didn't change the actual behavior of the laptop.

This leads me to believe that something else is managing the power settings but I'm not sure where to even start looking.

Any thoughts?

It's been many months that Aeon entered release candidate stage, and I haven't seen any notable news lately. Anyone knows when will it release in its final version?

Please understand that I am not complaining, and that I am just impatient for this project to be fully released, as I am big fan of Aeon (been helping during the beta phase for a while).

Is there any recent news about OpenSuse changing its name and SUSE asking to stop using its name as a distribution brand? When will it happen? Will it happen for sure?

I would like to ask two questions to think about:

1. SUSE STEP BACK? There is talk of the possible name GeckOS, ChameleOS or others, but as you can see from the trademark database , they haven't even filed a trademark (and it takes 6 months to approve it after filing). The last filing is Rancher Prime in March 2023. It's strange that so much time has passed and they haven't even filed a trademark. Ok a few months of reflection and meetings, but time is passing and they haven't even filed the trademark (as mentioned, the trademark is approved 6 months after its filing). Why all this stand-by? Could Suse have backtracked and withdrawn the rebranding application on the condition that OpenSuse conforms more to Suse?
2. TOO MUCH FRAGMENTATION? One of the reasons Suse asked for a rebrand is because the fragmentation of openSUSE distributions, with versions like Tumbleweed, Leap and Slowroll, has created confusion and a perception of inconsistency. Even if they rebranded (e.g. Gecko Tumbleweed, Gecko Leap, Gecko Slowroll, etc.) or simply dropped the word OpenSUSE (just Tumbleweed, just Leap or just Slowroll), wouldn't there still be confusion and a perception of fragmentation?