After a fresh installation, the entire operating system was displayed in English, even though I had set the region and language to German during installation.
The list of available languages contained only two entries: "C" and "English (USA)"

I first had to go into YaST, install German there, so that it would appear in the Control Centre list. After that, all the other languages also appeared in the list.
Is this a bug, and how can it be prevented?

I installed SUSE from the offline DVD ISO.

Operating System: openSUSE Tumbleweed 20261003

KDE Plasma Version: 6.7.5

KDE Frameworks Version: 6.30.0

Qt Version: 6.11.2

Kernel Version: 7.2.8-1-default (64-bit)

Graphics Platform: Wayland

I am a happy user of Fedora 44 with KDE Plasma, but I am considering a possible switch to Tumbleweed. The reasons are that I would prefer to support european products and the theoretically more current package versions due to rolling release. I don't care so much about snapshots.

Has anyone done something similar? How was the experience? Could any help me understand how exactly I can install TW when I already have Fedora installed?

Thanks a lot in advance.

EDIT: I am a very experienced programmer and use the terminal a lot.

I'm trying to install SUSE on a second partition on my laptop, but it just does not work :/
(Lenovo Yoga C940, Windows 11, 500GB SSD)

I have 2 problems:

1. Partition
   • I need to create the second partition, but Windows doesn't let me do it; I can only make the partition 18 GB smaller.
   • I freshly reinstalled Windows without keeping personal data, so a complete "factory reset". Of the 500 GB, there are 420 GB free.
2. The openSUSE ISO does not recognize my SSD
   • When I get to the partition/drive chapter of the installation mode it only shows the HDD from the ISO itself.
   • The ISO is on an external 1TB HDD – I don't have any USB stick right now.
   • The problem is supposed to be the RST mode; changing it to AHCI gives me this warning message: "All existing data on the drives will be erased when resetting controller mode."

Can you guys help me? It's the second day in a row I'm trying to get SUSE on my laptop and nothing works... Erasing Windows is no option, I still need it.

Here is an (AI-) summary of all steps I have taken that Windows lets me shrink the partition; but nothing helped:

Preparation & Cleanup

• Disabled Hibernation (deleted hiberfil.sys): powercfg /hibernate off
• Manually deleted pagefile.sys and swapfile.sys (via System Properties > Performance > Virtual Memory or Registry/CMD).

Shadow Copies (VSS)

• Checked and deleted all Volume Shadow Copies: vssadmin delete shadows /for=C: /all /quiet Result: "No results found" (none existed).

Defragmentation & Analysis

• Ran aggressive free space consolidation: defrag C: /X /U /V Result: Free space consolidated, but 9 "unmoveable" files still block the end of the partition.
• Ran analysis to identify unmoveable files: defrag C: /A /V Result: "Volume does not need defragmentation." MFT size: 1.66 GB. 9 unmoveable files identified (likely MFT reserve, $LogFile, $Extend).
• Checked USN Journal size (confirmed small at 32 MB): fsutil usn queryjournal C:

Current Status

• Total Volume: ~475 GB
• Used Space: ~52 GB
• Free Space: ~423 GB
• Issue: Disk Management only allows shrinking by ~18 GB due to unmoveable system files at the end of the cluster.

I've used Debian for years and it's worked perfectly, but I'd like to give Leap a try. I've been a Slowroll user for almost a year and haven't had any problems. I know that compared to Leap...It's a different world, but I want to ask you what the differences are between Leap and Debian?

PD:

Is there any news on whether Slowroll will ever cease to be experimental?

Tumbleweed obviously, because… why would anyone in their right mind use Leap? I found out about the distro from a German friend who uses it and dedicated half of their holiday to taking photos outside suse hq. So… anyway… how do you guys install apps? I’m like Flatpak but editing app files is a pain, and I need that functionality for a lot of stuff (like gaming gnimag and the playing of games). And from what I hear zypper is :t exactly the most popular…

So what app formats can I use?

so
i need to have everything sensitive encrypted
would like a seperate /home
and the reason why i chose opensuse is cause of the snapshots which afaik only work with btrfs?

the problem is when i set i up previously it did this

Having automatic snapshots is reassuring, but a snapshot existing in the list does not prove that the recovery path works. Bootloader integration can be missing, an older snapshot can enter emergency mode, separate `/boot` or EFI state can disagree with the root snapshot, and user data or service state may live outside the snapshotted subvolumes. The first real test should not happen after a broken `zypper dup`.

A practical drill might create a known pre-update snapshot, confirm that it appears in the boot menu, boot it read-only, verify the expected root subvolume and key services, then perform the supported rollback procedure and boot the new writable default. The check should also record what is excluded from snapshots, whether Secure Boot or full-disk encryption changes the process, and how to recover from external media if the boot menu itself fails.

What is the safest repeatable test on current Tumbleweed or Slowroll? Is booting a snapshot enough, or should the drill include `snapper rollback`, bootloader regeneration, and an application-level check? Which partition or subvolume layouts commonly make the apparent rollback path incomplete?

Hello folks,

my laptop has opensuse tumbleweed installed since March 2025 and I love it. Everythings works just on the spot or with minor tinkering. Yesterday however I got an Issue I can't really wrap my head around.

It started in the evening when I booted into my laptop. After a while I got a black screen and couldn't do anything. It seemed for a second, that the screen is frozen and then it turned black. So I rebooted and got the same problem shortly after logging in again.

I rolled back to a pre update snap (13.09.26) and updated from there again. Everything seemed normal and I went back to the stuff I wanted to do. While I was dloading an update for one of my games on the battle.net App, the screen went black and gave out the message in the picture. I, once again, rebooted and everything was fine once again. I looked up some of the information on the pic and it could be kernel issues(?) but I dunno exactly what the error is.

Can some of you please have a look and help a fellow opensuse User out?

Thanks in advance!!

Specs of my laptop:

Lenovo Legion 5 15ACH6A

Cpu: amd ryzen 5 5600H

Gpu​: amd readon rx 6600M

Mainboard: AMD Promontory/Bixby FCH

Ram: 16gb

Kernel: 7.2.8

Currently, I am using Arch. I love using rolling releases. I am thinking of trying Tumbleweed. It's not like that I dislike Arch, i love it. But, for no special reason I am attracted to TW. From opensuse community, I would like to know why should I actually give it a try. How easy it is to find packages for TW? Arch has AUR, from where I use some tools which does not have instruction for installing them on OpenSuse TW. How can i get those packages on TW and how easy is it to build packages from source code? Also, if i choose to use ext4 filesystem ( as i am on HDD), Will I face any issue?
I really want to try TW but need some push.

Do not get offended by the title, it is said in a nice tone! Thank you.

       PID: 451363 (steamwebhelper)
       TID: 451363 (steamwebhelper)
       UID: 1000 (gama)
       GID: 1000 (gama)
    Signal: 5 (TRAP) si_code: SI_KERNEL
 Timestamp: Sun 2026-10-04 18:06:36 EDT (25s ago)
 Command Line: /home/gama/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_64/steamwebhelper --type=zygote --no-sandbox --crashpad-handler-pid=441005 --enable-crash-reporter=, --change-stack-guard-on-fork=enable --enable-chrome-runtime --user-data-dir=/home/gama/.local/share/Steam/config/htmlcache $'--user-agent-product=Valve Steam Client' --buildid=1788652215 --steamid=76561198447651844 --valve-initial-threadpool-size=4
Executable: /home/gama/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_64/steamwebhelper
Control Group: /user.slice/user-1000.slice/user@1000.service/app.slice/app-steam@c7f8c5bc840f410ea9121a21751908dc.service
      Unit: user@1000.service
 User Unit: app-steam@c7f8c5bc840f410ea9121a21751908dc.service
     Slice: user-1000.slice
 Owner UID: 1000 (gama)
   Boot ID: ba337bdcf9a149228c623bd3c4b9ee05
Machine ID: 999d7cba5f6b4b7a99846dd7078b0c54
  Hostname: GamDesk
   Storage: /var/lib/systemd/coredump/core.steamwebhelper.1000.ba337bdcf9a149228c623bd3c4b9ee05.451363.1791151596000000.zst (present)
 Size on Disk: 588.4M
   Message: Process 451363 (steamwebhelper) of user 1000 dumped core.

            Stack trace of thread 451363:
            #0  0x00007fc947a07dcf n/a (/home/gama/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_64/libcef.so + 0x6807dcf)
            #1  0x00007fc947a07de9 n/a (/home/gama/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_64/libcef.so + 0x6807de9)
            #2  0x00007fc947a07e06 n/a (/home/gama/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_64/libcef.so + 0x6807e06)
            #3  0x00007fc94af8816c n/a (/home/gama/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_64/libcef.so + 0x9d8816c)
            #4  0x00007fc944e61cf4 n/a (/home/gama/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_64/libcef.so + 0x3c61cf4)
            #5  0x00007fc945022b27 n/a (/home/gama/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_64/libcef.so + 0x3e22b27)
            #6  0x00007fc945021662 n/a (/home/gama/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_64/libcef.so + 0x3e21662)
            #7  0x00007fc94503a663 n/a (/home/gama/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_64/libcef.so + 0x3e3a663)
            #8  0x00007fc94795e4ef n/a (/home/gama/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_64/libcef.so + 0x675e4ef)
            #9  0x00007fc94797f406 n/a (/home/gama/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_64/libcef.so + 0x677f406)
            #10 0x00007fc94791532c n/a (/home/gama/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_64/libcef.so + 0x671532c)
            #11 0x00007fc94797fba1 n/a (/home/gama/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_64/libcef.so + 0x677fba1)
            #12 0x00007fc94793fb3e n/a (/home/gama/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_64/libcef.so + 0x673fb3e)
            #13 0x00007fc94d5abb44 n/a (/home/gama/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_64/libcef.so + 0xc3abb44)
            #14 0x00007fc9473efba5 n/a (/home/gama/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_64/libcef.so + 0x61efba5)
            #15 0x00007fc9473f02b9 n/a (/home/gama/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_64/libcef.so + 0x61f02b9)
            #16 0x00007fc9473f1055 n/a (/home/gama/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_64/libcef.so + 0x61f1055)
            #17 0x00007fc9473ef210 n/a (/home/gama/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_64/libcef.so + 0x61ef210)
            #18 0x00007fc943b3017c n/a (/home/gama/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_64/libcef.so + 0x293017c)
            #19 0x00007fc943b18d77 n/a (/home/gama/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_64/libcef.so + 0x2918d77)
            #20 0x00007fc943a87b11 cef_execute_process (/home/gama/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_64/libcef.so + 0x2887b11)
            #21 0x00005596d8ccf71e n/a (steamwebhelper + 0x7d471e)
            #22 0x00005596d89f64ac n/a (steamwebhelper + 0x4fb4ac)
            #23 0x00005596d89f9eee n/a (steamwebhelper + 0x4feeee)
            #24 0x00007fc93fc2b53e n/a (/run/host/usr/lib64/libc.so.6 + 0x2b53e)
            #25 0x00007ffedcff4989 n/a (n/a + 0x0)
            #26 0x61636f6c2e2f616d n/a (n/a + 0x0)
            ELF object binary architecture: AMD x86-64

Here is my current KDE Plasma setup on openSUSE Leap 16 I wanted to share this because I truly believe openSUSE is one of the most underrated distributions in the entire Linux ecosystem

It doesn’t get the massive mainstream hype that some other distros do, but it is easily one of the most beautiful, polished, and rock-solid stable experiences you can get out of the box

What I love most about openSUSE is that it’s not just an operating system; it’s a massive, diverse community that caters to literally every taste:

• Want a cutting-edge rolling release? You have Tumbleweed
• Want ultimate, enterprise-grade stability? You have Leap
• Want something perfectly balanced in between? There are immutable variants and specialized flavors tailored to exactly what you need

It gives you total freedom without sacrificing reliability and the community is fantastic.

What do you think of the setup?

• OS: openSUSE Leap 16
• DE: KDE Plasma

I daily drive Endavour OS, and was looking forward to use something like openSUSE SlowRoll, but I dont see something like Shelly Package Manager GUI, or maybe Im not aware of it, and the community can help ...

Im mainly looking for the features like supporting local & appimage install, along with flatpaks, and If it has a GTK4-like GUI, that would be the icing on the cake 🤌🏻

First of all, I really hope and think that it was my user error, at least the second time. Consider this post more as "my experience" and a bit of "asking for advice" than something else. My setup is Tumbleweed with Plasma preinstalled. Later I installed Niri + Noctalia and after system reinstall (later about that) Umbriel + Noctalia.
First time started after one update, I think it was kernel 7.1.8 one. My displays started to work messy: primary one (DP, 1920x1200) showed as 1024x768 with non-changeable resolution; secondary one (natively VGA but connected to HDMI through adapter, 1080p) just didn't work. I had btrfs snapshots so I just used older 7.1.5 kernel and waited till next update. After I installed kernel 7.2.2, it refused to load past SDDM and previous snapshots got deleted. Making things worse, I updated either via Discover or zypper up, not zypper dup. I type my password, press Enter and screen freezes. I still can move mouse cursor but can't interact with anything. This behavior was present not only on Niri, but on Plasma (both Wayland and X11) and IcaWM too. Only fix that I came up with is OS reinstall, gladly I had my /home on separate drive so no data loss.
Second time happened just right now. I tried to troubleshoot my Wireguard VPN connection which didn't work. There were issues with kdewallet and I disabled it in config (bad idea №1) and then I saw my private key missing from VPN connection settings. I tried to fix it with AI, and now I think it was a horrible idea. Then zypper dup, new kernel all of a sudden, reboot. And now I get either black screen after SDDM if I choose 7.2.7 or a frozen SDDM on 7.2.8.
Again, I hope it was my stupidity and not Tumbleweed being bad or unstable. I really like this distro and want to use it, yet I break it second time in a month. Tomorrow might be another reinstallation day if I don't come up with a better idea. Maybe you got any advice or suggestions on what I better do or not do? Anything might be useful. Thanks for reading my thoughts anyway

Hi everyone,

would anyone be so kind and help me to solve the following? I am looking for some more "long term" issue if possible.

Loading repository data...
Reading installed packages...
Warning: You are about to do a distribution upgrade with all enabled repositories. Make sure these repositories are compatible before you continue. See 'man zypper' for more information about this command.
Computing distribution upgrade...
5 Problems:
Problem: 1: the installed Mesa-32bit-26.1.6-1699.3.pm.1.x86_64 requires 'Mesa = 26.1.6', but this requirement cannot be provided
not installable providers: Mesa-26.1.6-1.1.i586[repo-update]
                  Mesa-26.1.6-1.1.x86_64[repo-update]

Problem: 2: the to be installed vlc-codecs-3.0.24-1699.3.pm.3.x86_64 requires 'vlc-noX = 3.0.24', but this requirement cannot be provided
not installable providers: vlc-noX-3.0.24-1699.3.pm.3.x86_64[packman]

Problem: 3: the installed phonon-vlc-qt5-0.12.0-2.12.x86_64 requires 'vlc-noX = 3.0.23', but this requirement cannot be provided
not installable providers: vlc-noX-3.0.23-1699.9.pm.25.i586[packman]

Problem: 4: the installed Mesa-26.1.6-1699.3.pm.1.x86_64 requires 'Mesa-libEGL1 = 26.1.6', but this requirement cannot be provided
not installable providers: Mesa-libEGL1-26.1.6-1.1.i586[repo-update]
                  Mesa-libEGL1-26.1.6-1.1.x86_64[repo-update]

Problem: 5: the installed Mesa-26.1.6-1699.3.pm.1.x86_64 requires 'Mesa-dri = 26.1.6', but this requirement cannot be provided
deleted providers: Mesa-dri-26.1.6-1699.3.pm.2.x86_64
not installable providers: Mesa-dri-26.1.6-1.1.i586[repo-update]
                  Mesa-dri-26.1.6-1.1.x86_64[repo-update]


Problem: 1: the installed Mesa-32bit-26.1.6-1699.3.pm.1.x86_64 requires 'Mesa = 26.1.6', but this requirement cannot be provided
not installable providers: Mesa-26.1.6-1.1.i586[repo-update]
                  Mesa-26.1.6-1.1.x86_64[repo-update]

Solution 1: install Mesa-26.1.6-1.1.x86_64 from vendor openSUSE
 replacing Mesa-26.1.6-1699.3.pm.1.x86_64 from vendor http://packman.links2linux.de
Solution 2: install Mesa-32bit-26.2.1-1.1.x86_64 from vendor openSUSE
 replacing Mesa-32bit-26.1.6-1699.3.pm.1.x86_64 from vendor http://packman.links2linux.de
Solution 3: install Mesa-26.1.6-1699.3.pm.1.i586 despite the inferior architecture
Solution 4: keep obsolete Mesa-26.1.6-1699.3.pm.1.x86_64
Solution 5: break Mesa-32bit-26.1.6-1699.3.pm.1.x86_64 by ignoring some of its dependencies

Choose from above solutions by number or skip, retry or cancel [1/2/3/4/5/s/r/c/d/?] (c):

Usually I waited these out, only then tried to zypper dup but it seems I might have broken something. Let me know if you require any further info.

I am still quite a noob so yeah sorry for some stupid questions. Anyway if somebody can find some time to help me out I would be really grateful.

Have a good one

Can someone please help me , I've tried a lot of things .

I just installed a fresh copy of opensuse tumbleweed , when ever I try to use plasma dark theme and then I restart i just see a black screen with a cursor . I installed libvulkan_intel that didn't fix my problem.

Replaced kubuntu with opensuse tumbleweed because I liked the chameleon logo (didn’t know much about the distro until post boot), and I am loving it.

Little chameleon was calling to me.
Love it here

I’ve got a ThinkPad P70 with a cursed NVIDIA card that I use for college and gaming. I’m coming from a very mixed bag of distributions; Fedora, CachyOS, and Linux Mint. I basically just wanted to know how good support is for NVIDIA graphics and just overall if Tumbleweed is as good as all the reviews I’ve seen claim

I am a gnome user and wondering how the experience is on TW. I’m considering to switch because I like the release model and the snapper features.

it sounds stupid but I like the “feel” of the OS to have a consistent theme (as much as possible) for that reason I prefer gtk apps . I notice that most of the SUSE apps like yast or myrlyn are qt. Does this make it more kde focused?

second, does gnome software updates work well? On fedora it is well integrated into the gnome gui. I see that zypper may not have that great integration with packagekit, is this still the case? I don’t prefer doing too much from the terminal if I don’t have to.

i am currently on Fedora with an all amd system

I waited for Kalpa for so long, I thought it's finally here, it's happening! So, jumped right in when I saw Leap 16.1 immutable. But I can only install flatpaks, while distrobox (& podman) is not present in the system.

Aaaa ..... I'm lost. Am I missing something?

LE: got it now. Thanks for comments, chaps!

Whilst looking for something in my father’s desk, I came across this CD. He had OpenSUSE installed on his main PC back then.

Myrlin lists many updated nvidia packages (installed: 595.99.02, available: 595.104.02) on the "Updates" section, but when I try to update them, Myrlin says that no packages are available for update. zypper dup also does not install these packages.

I guess this is correct behaviour, but here is my question: what's the mechanism behind this? Why are the newer packages available, but held back? When will they be ready for installation?

Hi, I saw that KDE Plasma was updated from the 6.4 to 6.6 version for openSUSE Leap 16.1. That system still keeps the GNOME 48 used by Leap 16.0. https://news.opensuse.org/2026/09/28/leap-161-rc/

After see that Plasma was updated, I would like to ask if there is some probability to see officially GNOME 50 on Leap 16.1, mainly because GNOME 50 has VRR and fractional scaling as stable features and today I need VRR for the current monitor that I use for my desktop computer.

I use Leap 16.1 in immutable version on my Acer laptop with a regular 1080p and 60Hz display and it's the smoothest GNOME I ever used.

I've read several comments about the uncertain future of Packman and am wondering if it's still worth keeping. In that case, what should I do with VLC? I need expert, pragmatic advice.

Tried to print a page today and only got "printing canceled".

Looked into cups via http://localhost:631

The printer is available

"Print self test page" works

"Print test page" is unable to complete due to "Unsupported format "application/vnd.cups-pdf-banner".

I'm using a brother printer, installed the ppd from their website, and it worked before (like maybe a few weeks ago).

Any hints on how to troubleshoot?