Hi all,

My system is up to date, and I tried running "zypper dup --recommends" just to see if there were any updated recommended packages. I get the following two packages:

The following 2 NEW packages are going to be installed:
kuserfeedback-lang openSUSE-repos-Slowroll-NVIDIA

Why is the Slowroll repo suggested for me, even though I'm on Tumbleweed? I noticed the Nvidia repo packages for both Tumbleweed and MicroOS are installed on my system. Just want to make sure I'm not about to break something.

Its been a few months now since i completely ditched Windows11 and started using Tumbleweed. I just finished somewhat good job in ricing my Laptop - which also has TW on it with AwesomeWM and Polybar, i need to figure out just how to launch programs, or get the ROFI to work but i have time. Im going home for few days and i think im going to do it there.

However, i managed to nuke my system few minutes ago installing and deinstalling either alacritty or zsh. i deinstalled both and when i rebooted i had a rose square with my username-machine hostname and for some reason name of my modem/router and i couldnt do anything. Even the keyboard wasnt reacting to anything.

So i thought to myself "wait isnt there snapper that makes snapshots so *THEORETICALLY* i could revert/roll back to a stable version i had before i nuked the system?!"

So i reboot the machine, and go in the advanced settings, boot up into yesterdays snapshot - AND VOILA. As i was there i deleted all of the snapshots i did today (i basically logged in at around 9pm EU/Amsterdam time and started effing around with zsh and alacritty when i nuked the system) so i thought - there isnt that much important stuff i did in these couple of hours so i deleted all of the snapshots from that time period.

I made snap *number* my main/dafault snap, mounted it, rebooted and now im here bragging about minor victories in linux.

Thank you OpenSUSE that you made such resilient OS for id_iots like me who more then often dont know what they do. This whole process took me around 20 minutes (ca 23:39 - 00:00) and now im super proud of myself that i actually accomplished something and that made my system as good as i left it yesterday.

Thank you so much for your hard work, the programs you give to us and all this extra functionality you put in your OS for us. I cant express how much these little things mean to newbie users and all thanks to your hard work and consideration for us. <3

edit: here is the recovered system - working just fine :)

https://preview.redd.it/rvvq0ipuapwc1.png?width=2560&format=png&auto=webp&s=4788eb61724133dbb679d67d700395e51ffa3b9e

This is an obvious noob question. Ever since the plasma 6 update my TW is, well... fucky at best. I cannot resize panels, cannot install kwin scripts and many more. I don't mind losing all the settings associated with plasma to have a clean install. What are the steps?

I’m a big fan of Tumbleweed and KDE Plasma is much favorite DE. When using it, I also like the convenience of the Discover store to install/update apps from the repository and flatpak, so I want to keep it installed.

However, I only want my system updates to be done through terminal (sudo zypper dup).

If I disable the automatic updates settings on KDE, will Discover not do any updates forcefully? Can anyone using Plasma 6 confirm me this please?

I am asking because in the past I had issues with Discover automatically downloading and installing updates on startup (even when not launching Discover and turning auto-updates settings off). This sometimes caused me issues, as in my experience Discover doesn’t handle system updates properly sometimes.

Any input from users in the same use case as mine would be greatly appreciated.

With the latest Snapshot I got problems with freezing applications and a really unstable desktop.
I am using the opensource nvidia kernel module with propriatary nvidia drivers from their repository.
Wayland is unusable and X11 also has problems.
I usually keep the old Kernels and am currently using 5.8.2 -1, but this does only help a little bit.
Is there some kind of mailing list or bug tracker where people can see the latest issues in recent snapshots?

Hello community, I want to install conky manager, but it is only in these repositories, and they told me that it is dangerous to use those repositories, that it is better not to install it, my question is: is there another way to have it safely.

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hello

I just build a new PC and installed Suse Leap 15.5. I have 2 issues, one strange and the other grave.

The first problem is on GRUB, if I choose the default OS which would be Leap 15.5 (the only one installed). The screen goes black and stays black, then the monitor reports no-signal.

Then, I reset and choose 'advance options' and pick the first which is Leap 15.5, and fine, it goes tothe login screen and this is where I get into the 2nd problem.

If I chose the option with limited load then the screen goes black and monitor reports 'no signal'.

Now to the second problem. It doesn't lets me log-in, and it's not because I writing the wrong password, not in root or the personal user.

A note on the installation, when I added the password for the 'root' user the screen has a selection of a public key and list several of the hard drives to choose from. I never used that and has no ooption not to use a key, so I let it on the default selection, one of the hard drives.

Another note. I use Ext4 for '/' and home on different partitions, this time the installer added a 8 MG BIOS Boot partition, something new for me.

I haven't found anything on this error, and again, it's not because I forgot the passwords.

Since it's a new machine, I must add that I had to turn on the CSM option on the BIOS because it wouldn't recognize any bookable media, not even the USB to start the installation.

Any ideas to avoid trying a re-installation ?

Thank you.

UPDATE:

I had to re-install and have the option:

Leap 15.5 with default....

As the main boot option and with automatic log-in, I haven't tried logging as root but YAST works and do ask for the root password as it should.

UPDATE:

Finally solved. I installed the OS in a new hd and moved the old HD as non-bootable to be later clean and use to store other files, the new installation was detecting the other /home partition, I deleted the /, /home partitions of the old HD where the previous version of the OS was, reset and now logins normally.

So in this Spring season, after some months using Aeon exclusively, I decided to distrohop a bit with all the fuss around new releases of Fedora 40 and Ubuntu 24.04, Plasma 6, Cinnamon with initial Wayland support, a preview of PopOS Cosmic desktop, and in the end of it the grass is not greener on the other side.

The combination of a minimal .rpm base with a barebones vanilla GNOME on a immutable FS with atomic updates and reliance on Flathub keeps it simple and effective. Good thing that Flathub is continually improving, with plenty of apps gaining verified status. Granted, I haven't really tried Fedora Silverblue yet to make a direct comparison, but mostly because there's nothing in openSUSE Aeon that I would prefer differently when it comes to immutability. The system works, is self-repairing and requires 0 maintenance effort. What a night and day difference compared with the endless fiddling in other distributions, and I mean even compared with Tumbleweed. Good riddance Yast!

I can't wait for the new image-based edition to be released, because I'm pretty much settled at this point, just boot and get to work! It's quite comfortable in here. And there's distrobox if the necessity arises.

https://preview.redd.it/dkuk179l3hwc1.png?width=1920&format=png&auto=webp&s=0a9912531a7c1a1dc2db675bade59d2edeaa8219

After a tweak or two, got my fetch sorted.

Not used openSUSE for many years, and even then it wasn't with any great success. After some frantic distro hopping lately I need to calm down. Going to try and give this go a decent run and make openSUSE my new home. Only been a few days, but loving the experience so far. Plasma 6 running very smoothly.

Hello all!

• I have a current installation using the ext4 file system and want to do a fresh install.

• I want to focus on 'speed' and read/write performance.

Should I stay on ext4? Is there any other file system faster than ext4?

weird behavior with the above combo

when my laptop (HP Zbook 15 G6) goes to sleep and it resumes operation (by waking via keyboard), I am not able to click on any windows.

I can switch apps though using ALT+tab and I cannot interact with it EXCEPT for gnome terminal. (might be best explain with an example: I can ALT+tab to gnome terminal and interact with it like running terminal commands/etc.

as a test, I installed Ubuntu LTS beta and it does NOT exhibit the same weird bug.

not really sure where to start the investigation. any ideas would be helpful. Thanks!

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I am new to Linux. I was trying to download packages using both opi and zypper and have been getting these checksum errors that I have no idea about. I tried searching online for similar problems but didn't find anything.

So, I proceeded and entered the first 4 characters of the checksum as it instructed to.

This is what I am getting at the end. Please help me as I am unable to download even basic packages like git

I have been spending some evaluating SLE Micro / MicroOS for a project and am curious about base image customization as I need to be able to create a very tiny base installation.

Looking at the SLE Micro datasheet I see:

https://preview.redd.it/z96wknddcfwc1.png?width=425&format=png&auto=webp&s=156fd53a591ec4dc62c5f6eafc426bc4c468e60d

"You can start with just the Linux kernel and add required modules to build a custom image."

Can someone point me in the right direction on how to go about using the tools it suggests here like KIWI and Open Build Service? Any tutorials around creating a base custom image for MicroOS using those?

Additionally, are there some existing small footprint ISOs I can start with? I've only seen the DVD-related images insofar.

Appreciate everyone's time.

-Shaun

So I have been trying MicroOS Aeon these past few days and and I found it to be an almost perfect distribution.

However I need to do some prep work on the system before settling for good into the immutable.

I have learn about combustion but it is not run by default after the DVD install and the only clue I have is this post from 3 years ago mentioning it to be an option in the software selection. I have been poking around but either i'm blind or the options doesn't exist anymore.

Is it still possible to trigger it ? (or is there any other way to fine tune the system after the install ?)

thanks

When trying to play media files form the network I got errors. I thought it was VLC codec issues. Turns out I had to copy the file to my local machine. Weird but okay.

Today I was unable to save a PDF from chrome to a network location (I was able to browse to it, enter a name, but it wouldn't save there). It did save to a local (~/Documents) folder. I can open Dolphin and copy / paste into this directory (network share) so I know I have access, but applications aren't treating it that way.

Note that this is browsing via network (SMB) not by mounting remote folders. (such as /mnt/server_share)

I opened LibreWriter and tried to open a file, I see the server in locations, but when I click it doesn't do anything (doesn't show any shares / folders / drawings). However, I can browse to the folder in Dolphin and double click it and it'll open. But I will not be able to save it to the same location / file I will have to sale on my local machine.

So, this seems to be something inherit to the way OpenSUSE (or Linux?) works. Can someone educate me on this, like I'm 5 years old? And, if there's something I can do so that I can work on files directly from the network let me know. Thanks.

EDIT: Kate seems to open / save files on the network just fine.

Is there anywhere I can follow the progress or is there a timeline on this? Thank you. It seems quite perfect for me, but not want use it on my main computer before it's out of alpha phase. Thank you.

thinking about switching my main homelab server to it since mine is just debian 12 with a bunch of containers, anyone here use it

I have a .src.rpm file that I want to build and then install. The SPEC file of that src RPM has plenty of build requirements (defined in the 'BuildRequires' option inside the SPEC file). Is there a 'zypper' command that would install both "build" and "normal" requirements for the RPM automatically? After installing the built RPM, what is the proper procedure to remove the build dependencies?

So I bought this wonderful Lenovo T14s laptop and would like to install my favorite distro (Tumbleweed) on it. I am an old school guy and prefer to a separate /home with EXT4 to the fancy BTRFS volumes, as this will allow me to reinstall the OS or distrohop in the future. In the Expert Partitioner section of the installer I created two partitions: one for root with BTRFS and one for home. Now if I encrypt both root and /home, I expect this to ask me to enter the password twice during boot which I would like to avoid. Should I just encrypt /home and be done with it? I don't see a major security issue in leaving root unencrypted (I know OpenSUSE wiki is saying that sensitive files can end up in /tmp).

While adding torrents for daily Tumbleweed isos still seems pointless and wasteful, we now added the most recent Tumbleweed-Slowroll snapshot iso https://download.opensuse.org/slowroll/iso/openSUSE-Tumbleweed-DVD-x86_64-Snapshot20240405-Media.iso.torrent to the torrent tracker

So that you can install either Slowroll or Tumbleweed with it.

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Alternatively, you can sudo zypper in kubo ; ipfs daemon& to access the latest iso in IPFS:

ipfs ls /ipns/opensuse.zq1.de/tumbleweed/iso/

or via its local web-gateway http://ipfs.opensuse.org.ipns.localhost:8080/tumbleweed/iso/

This is using https://github.com/bmwiedemann/ipfs-iso-jigsaw for efficient storage of daily isos.

I'm using an AMD 7800X3D and 6800XT with AMDGPU, any update after the April 7 one completely tanks my GPU performance. I will get 100% GPU load with sub 30 FPS in any wine game no matter the resolution or settings. Is anybody else having similar problems or has any idea where to start looking for solutions?

Edit:

Ok after tinkering a little with everything, turns out the update just changed the default GPU to the iGPU. So after settting to the dedicated one everything is fine again. Still don't know why that happened, but it is what it is. Thanks for trying to fix my stupid :)

Hello everybody,

i have a problem where i just can't find a solution. I have a laptop running OpenSuse Tumbleweed, with an Intel UHD620 graphics card. My laptop only has a single HDMI output. I have a second monitor with only a DVI input. I bought a DVI-to-HDMI adaptor to use both together.

Now, if i connect the monitor to my laptop, i can see it being connected and detected in the system information or via xrandr. But it only shows a black screen.

The adapter and cable is working perfectly on my secondary Windows PC.

I already tried different resolutions and framerates via xrandr with no success. I strongly suspect i need special drivers to use such an adaptor, but i cannot find anything related online.

Is there something obvious i could try? Or has someone a hint where i could look for the problem source?

Thank you very much in every case.

Recently did a fresh install of Tumbleweed for the first time in a while, and I just noticed that Dolphin doesn't offer MP3 as an option in the KIO audiocd worker. I'm assuming I missed a codec somewhere or a repo change to Packman, but I can't find it. Any thoughts on what I've missed?

Edited to add: gstreamer-plugins-ugly is installed, and I'm able to get mp3 playback in vlc.