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I want to migrate from Tumbleweed to Slowroll. I have a rather fresh install of Tumblweed with systemd-boot, so I want to retain that. Just waiting for them to get in sync on that.

Hello. I’ve installed Tumbleweed and my videos play fine, and streaming works well. Is it advisable to enable VA-API graphics acceleration via Packman for playing multimedia content in Tumbleweed? Thank you

Updating from Tumbleweed 20260331 to 20260415, zypper dup fails at accountsservice :(

error: lsetfilecon: (11 /usr/share/accountsservice, system_u:object_r:accountsd_share_t:s0) Invalid argument  
error: Plugin selinux: hook fsm_file_prepare failed  
error: unpacking of archive failed on file /usr/share/accountsservice: cpio: (error 0x2)  
error: accountsservice-23.13.9-11.3.x86_64: install failed  
error: accountsservice-23.13.9-11.2.x86_64: erase skipped  
(557/916) Installing: accountsservice-23.13.9-11.3.x86_64 ..................................................................................................[error]  
Installation of accountsservice-23.13.9-11.3.x86_64 failed:  
Error: Subprocess failed. Error: RPM failed: Command exited with status 1.  
Abort, retry, ignore? [a/r/i] (a): a  
Warning: %posttrans and %transfiletrigger scripts are not executed when aborting!  

What should I do?

I'm on Tumbleweed. I just launched the system and the first thing I tried was to refresh the Zypper repos. I got this error:

~> sudo zypper refresh  
[sudo] password for root: 
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): no  
System management is locked by the application with pid 2648 (/usr/libexec/packagekitd).  
Close this application before trying again.  

I guess that's an intermittent issue. I'm new to Linux and new to openSUSE and until today I have not heard about PackageKit.

But something bothers me in the documentation:

In general, it is recommended to allow packagekit to handle system maintenance and software package updates since it contains background operations to ensure stable delivery with minimal interruptions. For this reason, newcomers to Tumbleweed should continue to use their respective software managers (Discover for Plasma, Gnome Software for Gnome) until there is an absolute need for manual intervention and/or greater understanding.

Elsewhere, when I was still researching which distro to choose and before installing Tumbleweed, I read that I should always use only zypper dup, never to use GNOME's Software updates or anything else (unless it's Flatpak). GNOME does display pending updates at times, but I ignore them. So how is it actually?

Last time I updated with sudo zypper dup, it forgot all about my gpu and had to uninstall the Nvidia drivers it forced me to install through the update, and the reinstall the G07 drivers that fits my 3050 card.

Is there a more proper way of doing this in OpenSUSE for a newbie? Would be very helpful if Myrlyn or something else was made for this, so if you wound up with a wrong driver after a major update, you could just use myrlyn (or something else) to autodetect and install the right driver (and also force it to run on your machine for all applications).

Okay, so, last time I used SuSE was with SuSE 8.0, that I eventually upgraded to SuSE 8.2, IIRC, until I started feeling like "nah, this isn't my thing", and moved to Ubuntu when that thing came out. And then it's been mostly Linux Mint since that one came to existence.

And now I'm getting a bit fed up with some stuff about my current Ubuntu installation and, since enough weeks have passed since the previous try, decided to already give SuSE another go.

Anyway, it feels odd how narrow the software catalogue seems to be. For Matrix I only seem to have nheko, and that's it. No Element, no FluffyChat. Just nheko. Might work just fine, but it's butt-ugly. And it took some hunting to even figure out it exists. zypper search matrix didn't find it.

How does one actually properly find programs to install for this thing?

I recently switched to OpenSuse Slowroll on my desktop, while my laptop is still running Mint.

What I really miss is the Web App Manager on Linux Mint that allows you to install websites as an app on the desktop. I liked to use it especially for streaming services, because I usually clear all browser data, when I close it. So the Web App was a good option to have a single site with permanent cookies to avoid logging in after ever restart. And having this separated from the normal browser was also nice.

So I wonder, if there is a similar option for OpenSuse or some other workaround I am missing.

From snapshot 20260226 to 20260304 with all of texlive.

I swear I haven't had this issue before, but every time now I install a fresh TumbleweedOS installation, from the get-go, it won't see the nVidia drivers at all. I have tried with a pc with rtx3050 and a pc with gtx1060. Both I had to do "crazy stuff" in terminal, to force it to use my gpu. This is freaking weird. (Haven't been able to fix the 1060 setup yet..)

Any ideers what I do wrong?

Hi guys, since TumbleweedOS has been my altime favorite distro these past 6 months or so. Installed it on all of my computers, incl laptops. I just got the newest edition also with kde plasma 6.6 which started out great. But I just baught a used desktop pc, whis is only soon to be 3 years old, with a ryzen 5 4500 cpu and a Nvidia RTX 3050 8GB. I had a few troubles with my 250hz monitor at first when I booted tumbleweed on it from Windows, which was probably the first signs I should had noticed. After a reinstall, and doing things as a usually do. Starting with drivers. I installed the nvidia G07 package (for 1650 and above gpus). Suddenly games like doom (the remakes) and blizzard launcher etc. Just bearly runs. It's like my pc forces everything to run off the motherboard or the ryzen processor instead of using my GPU. Doom forinstance, loads up in a horrible resolution, and when I am in the menu, I can't navigate around because of the lagency and horrible resolution. It really sucks to have this experience with openSUSE, because I really like the distro and I sound honestly hate to boot something else.

Worth noting. I installed a HDD 3tb from my older pc to the new one, which had all the games already installed (also tumbleweedOS ext4) what I am thinking is, maybe the problem is, that the games were preinstalled on the storage drive on a pc with different specs (intel cpu gtx 1060,etc) and the system just can't figure out migrating to the new hardware? Seems like a long shot though. I am no computer genius, so I am just reaching here.

I tried doing all the same stuff (upgrading to newest updates, kde plasma 6.6 etc) on my old gaming laptop with geforce 1050ti. And everything just runs flawlessly. The laptop it self has got a little janky over the years, but It is also very old. But games and software in general just runs off the bat. Even battlenet.

Why do you think I have these issues? I must also say, that it is the first time I try a AMD cpu with Nvidia RTX gpu. I have no idea about if this Setup, could be causing problems. I certainly hope not.

Kind regards.

So I haven't done any distro hopping for a long time. I've settled on Arch Linux as my daily driver some 7-8 years ago and despite it feeling a little overwhelming at times, I quite enjoyed the challenges it provides as opportunities to learn more about how computers work. I'm in no way a professional IT guy, just interested in the subject and use my computer for pretty mundane taskst, such as office work, internet browsing, media consumption, a bit of gaming and photo editing.

I liked the way Arch lets you pick your own destiny and I can pick which software I like best on each level, from boot loader, to display manager to desktop environment. I use KDE plasma, for example, but don't like their default text-editor very much, so I don't have to install it and can just use gedit instead.

I'm happy with my main machine running Arch, but I have two other machines that I don't use very regularly, and maintaining those in Arch, even running the regular rolling release updates is impractical, so I decided to switch them to a different distro. One is an old laptop, that I use in a different room for my Online Pen&Paper Sessions, the other is an abomination of spare parts, at my parents house, (I call it Frankenstein's PC, with an old AMD Athlon CPU and 4 Gigs of RAM), that I only use on occasional visits, if I have to absolutely do something that is too annoying to do on my phone.

Would openSUSE Leap be a good pick for these use cases? What advantages does it have to offer? What do you think I will enjoy or find annoying, coming from Arch?

I'd be happy to read about your experiences, opinions and suggestions.

Hello. Is it advisable to create an ESP partition for each system, or is it better to use the Windows 11 ESP partition? Thanks

Hello. I just received my new mini PC and I want to delete the Windows that comes installed and install Tumbleweed. I have seen in the Yast installer that the default grub is Grub-bls instead of grub-efi, which was the default until now. Which one should I choose, and what benefits does grub-bls offer to make it the new default boot manager in Tumbleweed? Thank you for Tumbleweed.

Run time is 42:33. I found this fairly interesting because it could eventually be a solution to as he said it isn't ready for "Just throw at your grandma"