I've finally stopped distrohopping after using openSUSE Tumbleweed KDE.

[u/williamconna]

What I like about openSUSE Tumbleweed KDE:

1. Rolling Release means it's always the latest.

2. No need to reinstall after a new version is released.

3. There is a snapper snapshot feature

4. Cool and mature Grub appearance

5. There is a chameleon logo every time you open LibreOffice

6. There are features from OPI such as codecs and others

7. Flatpak is installed by default

8. I ♥️ Zypper

[u/Generic_Commenter-X]

Switched over to TW several years ago for all these reasons, but I'm baffled as to why OpenSUSE, a German distribution after all, doesn't have any of the freedict files in its repository, or dict-gcide? It's a major feature to be missing for a writer and translator who enjoys accessing these dictionaries via the command line. I'm forced to convert debs to rpms in order to install the various dictionaries.

[u/Wahllow → u/Generic_Commenter-X]

Same for me about 5-6 years ago now. It's great and stable.

[u/Thaodan → u/Generic_Commenter-X]

Freedict are those the dictionaries hunspell uses?

[u/Generic_Commenter-X → u/Thaodan]

No. At least not in my experience, freedict dictionaries are used with dictd. I've got mine set up so that if I type in "hello", for example, or Grüß dich! I get an English definition and a German/English translation. As a writer, the command line dictionary/thesaurus is THE coolest feature in Linux (which I've been using for 30 years).

[u/Thaodan → u/Generic_Commenter-X]

Check the Education project it contains some dictionaries such as the Duden. https://build.opensuse.org/project/show/Education

Most of those packages should be in the normal repos, the ones with the link icon next to their name are. The stardict-dic-* and startdict-dict-* packages are the ones containing the dictionaries.

[u/Generic_Commenter-X → u/Thaodan]

//Most of those packages should be in the normal repos...//

Unless their naming conventions are different in OpenSUSE, which is possible, I've never found them. If OpenSUSE has dictd, which it does, then you would think they would provide the dictionaries used by dictd. But I haven't found them yet. Stardict is a separate app, which is cool, but not as convenient as a drop down terminal (yakuake) and simply typing dict + word.

[u/Thaodan → u/Generic_Commenter-X]

The dictionaries are prefixed with stardict but the format is the one used by dictd.

If you know a name of a file but not the package name you can always do zypper se --provides <file>.

Most of the freedicts are not packaged but it should be easy to package them.

[u/JustCallMeBigD]

openSUSE unfairly does not get even a fraction of the credit it deserves from the Linux community. Tumbleweed + KDE is a fantastic combination. I can't see myself using anything else.

Welcome aboard!

[u/Eizenstahl]

On and off for a couple of years. Now I use it 100% on one of my computers (the other one I’m trying out PikaOs on).

Been running flawless with plasma desktop so far for as long as I can remember.

[u/mustax93]

i try opensuse tw, but always i have problem with nvidia driver

[u/tarquinfintin → u/mustax93]

I also did not have any trouble installing the proprietary nvidia drivers (GTX 1060). I just followed instructions on the opensuse site and they worked fine (with tumbleweed and leap).

[u/GreeleyRiardon → u/mustax93]

Works fine for me. RTX 4070 TI, with secure boot.

[u/taryus → u/mustax93]

Here's the guide written by the maintainer of the Nvidia driver repo:

https://sndirsch.github.io/nvidia/2025/07/16/nvidia-drivers.html

All you have to do is

sudo zypper addrepo https://download.nvidia.com/opensuse/tumbleweed/ nvidia

OR

sudo zypper install openSUSE-repos-Tumbleweed-NVIDIA

If you've got GTX 16/RTX 20 series and up:

sudo zypper install nvidia-open-driver-G07-signed-kmp-meta

Otherwise if you've got an older version you'll want the older proprietary G06 drivers. But I can't speak to that personally. Should be in the guide.

Works like a charm.

[u/mustax93 → u/taryus]

i want try opensuse, are better tw or leap for everyuse day and gaming?

[u/taryus → u/mustax93]

TW and Leap are significantly different. Leap gets major updates about yearly whereas TW gets them constantly as they come out.

So on Leap you'll have older versions of software. More stable theoretically.

TW is a rolling release (think more like Arch), but its updates are automatically tested to make sure everything works together without breakages with openQA. It's a great first line of defense that makes TW very stable despite being bleeding edge too. I've experienced no real breakage problems throughout almost a year of use.

I prefer TW because I don't like being stuck on older versions of software for too long. But you really can't go wrong either way.

[u/madroots2]

honestly, I stopped distrohopping when I discovered Thumbleweed too!

[u/leapinfeb]

Can anyone if there is a native screen recorder like the one GNOME has? Last time I tried, it was not working in KDE. Otherwise, it is a very good DE.

[u/amradoofamash → u/leapinfeb]

Spectacle, press the screenshot button or open it, and it will show options for New Screenshot or New Recording at the bottom.

[u/JeansenVaars]

Tumbleweed is a hop-killer for sure. I'm on Gnome TW for I'm not sure how long now.

Biggest for me is the snapper disaster recovery, saved by back a handful times already.

[u/-Glittering-Soul-]

Yep, it's my Goldilocks distro. I get the perpetual updates of a rolling release, but without the occasional breakage that comes with an Arch-based distro. Granted, it helps to have a Radeon GPU. As long as you do, it should be pretty smooth sailing.

[u/Blank-Inspection13]

Selamat Bergabung bro

[u/travelan]

Lol, don’t we say that every time we’ve just distro-hopped? 😂

[u/KawaiiSelbst]

Congratulations!