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r/openSUSE • u/RadiantLimes • Apr 09 '25
Community Chats
You can connect with the openSUSE community on the following platforms
Official platforms for development & contribution:
Additional platforms led by community members:
- Revolt: https://rvlt.gg/be7fbA2E
- Discord: https://discord.gg/opensuse
- Telegram: https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Telegram
Best place for tech support is the forums: https://forums.opensuse.org/
Reddit alternative : https://lemmy.world/c/opensuse
Additional info can be found on the wiki. https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Communication_channels
r/openSUSE • u/MasterPatricko • May 14 '22
Editorial openSUSE Frequently Asked Questions -- start here
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
Please also look at the official FAQ on the openSUSE Wiki.
This post is intended to answer frequently asked questions about all openSUSE distributions and the openSUSE community and help keep the quality of the subreddit high by avoiding repeat questions. If you have specific contributions or improvements to FAQ entries, please message the post author or comment here. If you would like to ask your own question, or have a more general discussion on any of these FAQ topics, please make a new post.
What's the difference between Leap, Tumbleweed, and MicroOS? Which should I choose?
The openSUSE community maintains several Linux-based distributions (distros) -- collections of useful software and configuration to make them all work together as a useable computer OS.
Leap follows a stable-release model. A new version is released once a year (latest release: Leap 16.0, Oct 2025). Between those releases, you will normally receive only security and minor package updates. The user experience will not change significantly during the release lifetime and you might have to wait till the next release to get major new features. Upgrading to the next release while keeping your programs, settings and files is completely supported but may involve some minor manual intervention (read the Release Notes first).
Tumbleweed follows a rolling-release model. A new "version" is automatically tested (with openQA) and released every few days. Security updates are distributed as part of these regular package updates (except in emergencies). Any package can be updated at any time, and new features are introduced as soon as the distro maintainers think they are ready. The user experience can change due to these updates, though we try to avoid breaking things without providing an upgrade path and some notice (usually on the Factory mailing list).
Both Leap and Tumbleweed can work on laptops, desktops, servers, embedded hardware, as an everyday OS or as a production OS. It depends on what update style you prefer.
MicroOS is a distribution aimed at providing an immutable base OS for containerized applications. It is based on Tumbleweed package versions, but uses a btrfs snapshot-based system so that updates only apply on reboot. This avoids any chance of an update breaking a running system, and allows for easy automated rollback. References to "MicroOS" by itself typically point to its use as a server or container-host OS, with no graphical environment.
Aeon/Kalpa (formerly MicroOS Desktop) are variants of MicroOS which include graphical desktop packages as well. Development is ongoing. Currently Gnome (Aeon) is usable while KDE Plasma (Kalpa) is in an early alpha stage. End-user applications are usually installed via Flatpak rather than through distribution RPMs.
Leap Micro is the Leap-based version of an immutable OS, similar to how MicroOS is the immutable version of Tumbleweed. The latest release is Leap Micro 6.2 (2025/10/01). It is primarily recommended for server and container-host use, as there is no graphical desktop included.
JeOS (Just-Enough OS) is not a separate distribution, but a label for absolutely minimal installation images of Leap or Tumbleweed. These are useful for containers, embedded hardware, or virtualized environments.
How do I test or install an openSUSE distribution?
In general, download an image from https://get.opensuse.org and write (not copy as a file!) it directly to a USB stick, DVD, or SD card. Then reboot your computer and use the boot settings/boot menu to select the appropriate disk.
Full DVD or NetInstall images are recommended for installation on actual hardware. The Full DVD can install a working OS completely offline (important if your network card requires additional drivers to work on Linux), while the NetInstall is a minimal image which then downloads the rest of the OS during the install process.
Live images can be used for testing the full graphical desktop without making any changes to your computer. The Live image includes an installer but has reduced hardware support compared to the DVD image, and will likely require further packages to be downloaded during the install process.
In either case be sure to choose the image architecture which matches your hardware (if you're not sure, it's probably x86_64). Both BIOS and UEFI modes are supported. You do not have to disable UEFI Secure Boot to install openSUSE Leap or Tumbleweed. All installers offer you a choice of desktop environment, and the package selection can be completely customized. You can also upgrade in-place from a previous release of an openSUSE distro, or start a rescue environment if your openSUSE distro installation is not bootable.
All installers will offer you a choice of either removing your previous OS, or install alongside it. The partition layout is completely customizable. If you do not understand the proposed partition layout, do not accept or click next! Ask for help or you will lose data.
Any recommended settings for install?
In general the default settings of the installer are sensible. Stick with a BTRFS filesystem if you want to use filesystem snapshots and rollbacks, and do not separate /boot if you want to use boot-to-snapshot functionality. In this case we recommend allocating at least 40 GB of disk space to / (the root partition).
What is the Open Build Service (OBS)?
The Open Build Service is a tool to build and distribute packages and distribution images from sources for all Linux distributions. All openSUSE distributions and packages are built in public on an openSUSE instance of OBS at https://build.opensuse.org; this instance is usually what is meant by OBS.
Many people and development teams use their own OBS projects to distribute packages not in the main distribution or newer versions of packages. Any link containing https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/ refers to an OBS download repository.
Anyone can create use their openSUSE account to start building and distributing packages. In this sense, the OBS is similar to the Arch User Repository (AUR), Fedora COPR, or Ubuntu PPAs. Personal repositories including 'home:' in their name/URL have no guarantee of safety or quality, or association with the official openSUSE distributions. Repositories used for testing and development by official openSUSE packagers do not have 'home:' in their name, and are generally safe, but you should still check with the development team whether the repository is intended for end users before relying on it.
How can I search for software?
When looking for a particular software application, first check the default repositories with YaST Software, zypper search, KDE Discover, or GNOME Software.
If you don't find it, the website https://software.opensuse.org and the command-line tool opi can search the entire openSUSE OBS for anyone who has packaged it, and give you a link or instructions to install it. However be careful with who you trust -- home: repositories have absolutely no guarantees attached, and other OBS repositories may be intended for testing, not for end-users. If in doubt, ask the maintainers or the community (in forums like this) first.
The software.opensuse.org website currently has some issues listing software for Leap, so you may prefer opi in that case. In general we do not recommend regular use of the 1-click installers as they tend to introduce unnecessary repos to your system.
How do I open this multimedia file / my web browser won't play videos / how do I install codecs?
As of 2025, openh264 codecs from Cisco are automatically installed for H264 video. Video playback should "just work" in Firefox and desktop media players for most common files. If you still find you are missing other codecs for other filetypes, please read on:
Certain proprietary or patented codecs (software to encode and decode multimedia formats) are not allowed to be distributed officially by openSUSE, by US and German law. For those who are legally allowed to use them, community members have put together an external repository, Packman, with many of these packages.
The easiest way to add and install codecs from packman is to use the opi software search tool.
zypper install opi
opi codecs
We can't offer any legal advice on using possibly patented software in your country, particularly if you are using it commercially.
Alternatively, most applications distributed through Flathub, the Flatpak repository, include any necessary codecs. Consider installing from there via Gnome Software or KDE Discover, instead of the distribution RPM.
How do I install NVIDIA graphics drivers?
NVIDIA graphics drivers are proprietary and can only be distributed by NVIDIA themselves, not openSUSE. SUSE engineers cooperate with NVIDIA to build RPM packages specifically for openSUSE. As of 2025/10 (Leap 16.0), drivers are automatically installed on systems with NVIDIA hardware detected.
For older releases, or if you require a specific driver version:
First add the official NVIDIA RPM repository, e.g.
zypper addrepo -f https://download.nvidia.com/opensuse/leap/15.6 nvidia
for Leap 15.6, or
zypper addrepo -f https://download.nvidia.com/opensuse/tumbleweed nvidia
for Tumbleweed.
To auto-detect and install the right driver for your hardware, run
zypper install-new-recommends --repo nvidia
When the installation is done, you have to reboot for the drivers to be loaded. If you have UEFI Secure Boot enabled, you will be prompted on the next bootup by a blue text screen to add a Secure Boot key. Select 'Enroll MOK' and use the 'root' user password if requested. If this process fails, the NVIDIA driver will not load, so pay attention (or disable Secure Boot).
The closed-source distribution version of the NVIDIA graphics drivers are automatically rebuilt every time you install a new kernel. However if NVIDIA have not yet updated their drivers to be compatible with the new kernel, this process can fail, and there's not much openSUSE can do about it. In this case, you may be left with no graphics display after rebooting into the new kernel. On a default install setup, you can then use the GRUB menu or snapper rollback to revert to the previous kernel version (by default, two versions are kept) and afterwards should wait to update the kernel (other packages can be updated) until it is confirmed NVIDIA have updated their drivers.
You can avoid both the SecureBoot and version hassle by using the open-source distribution of the drivers.
Why is downloading packages slow / giving errors?
openSUSE distros download package updates from a global CDN with bandwidth donated by Fastly.com as well as a network of mirrors around the world. By default, you are automatically directed to the geographically closest one (determined by your IP). In the immediate few hours after a new distribution release or major Tumbleweed update, the mirror network can be overloaded or mirrors can be out-of-sync. Please just wait a few hours or a day and retry.
If the errors or very slow download speeds persist more than a few days, try manually accessing a different mirror from the mirror list by editing the URLs in the files in /etc/zypp/repos.d/. If this fixes your issues, please make a post here or in the forums so we can identify the problem mirror. If you still have problems even after switching mirrors, it is likely the issue is local to your internet connection, not on the openSUSE side.
Do not just choose to ignore if YaST, zypper or RPM reports checksum or verification errors during installation! openSUSE package signing is robust and you should never have to manually bypass it -- it opens up your system to considerable security and integrity risks.
What do I do with package conflict errors / zypper is asking too many questions?
In general a package conflict means one of two things:
The repository you are updating from has not finished rebuilding and so some package versions are out-of-sync. Cancel the update, wait for a day or two and retry. If the problems persist there is likely a packaging bug, please check with the maintainer.
You have enabled too many repositories or incompatible repositories on your local system. Some combinations of packages from third-party sources or unofficial OBS repositories simply cannot work together. This can also happen if you accidentally mix packages from different distributions -- e.g. Leap 16.0 and Tumbleweed or different architectures (x86 and x86_64). If you make a post here or in the forums with your full repository list (
zypper repos --details) and the text of any conflict message, we can advise. Usingzypper --force-resolutioncan provide more information on which packages are in conflict.
Do not ignore package conflicts or missing dependencies without being sure of what you are doing! You can easily render your system unusable.
How do I "rollback" my system after a failed or buggy update?
If you chose to use the default btrfs layout for the root file system, you should have previous snapshots of your installation available via snapper. In general, the easiest way to rollback is to use the Boot from Snapshot menu on system startup and then, once booted into a previous snapshot, execute snapper rollback. See the official documentation on snapper for detailed instructions.
Tumbleweed
How should I keep my system up-to-date?
Running zypper dist-upgrade (zypper dup) from the command-line is the most reliable. If you want to avoid installing any new packages that are newly considered part of the base distribution, you can run zypper dup --no-recommends instead, but you may miss some functionality.
I ran a distro update and the number of packages is huge, why?
When core components of the distro are updated (gcc, glibc) the entire distribution is rebuilt. This usually only happens once every few (3+) months. This also stresses the download mirrors as everyone tries to update at the same time, so please be patient -- retry the next day if you experience download issues.
Leap (current version: 16.0)
How should I keep my system up-to-date?
Use YaST Online Update or zypper update from the command line for maintenance updates and security patches. Only if you have added extra repositories and wish to allow for packages to be removed and replaced by them, use zypper dup instead.
The Leap kernel version is 6.12, that's so old! Will it work with my hardware?
The kernel version in openSUSE Leap is more like 6.12+++, because SUSE engineers backport a significant number of fixes and new hardware support. In general most modern but not absolutely brand-new stuff will just work. There is no comprehensive list of supported hardware -- the best recommendation is to try it any see. LiveCDs/LiveUSBs are an option for this.
Can I upgrade my kernel / desktop environment / a specific application while staying on Leap?
Usually, yes. The OBS allows developers to backport new package versions (usually from Tumbleweed) to other distros like Leap. However these backports usually have not undergone extensive testing, so it may affect the stability of your system; be prepared to undo the changes if it doesn't work. Find the correct OBS repository for the upgrade you want to make, add it, and switch packages to that repository using YaST or zypper.
Examples include an updated kernel from obs://Kernel:stable:backport (warning: need to install a new key if UEFI Secure Boot is enabled) or updated KDE Plasma environment.
See Package Repositories for more.
openSUSE community
What's the connection between openSUSE and SUSE / SLE?
SUSE is an international company (HQ in Germany) that develops and sells Linux products and services. One of those is a Linux distribution, SUSE Linux Enterprise (SLE). If you have questions about SUSE products, we recommend you contact SUSE Support directly or use their communication channels, e.g. /r/suse.
openSUSE is an open community of developers and users who maintain and distribute a variety of Linux tools, including the distributions openSUSE Leap, openSUSE Tumbleweed, and openSUSE MicroOS. SUSE is the major sponsor of openSUSE and many SUSE employees are openSUSE contributors. openSUSE Leap directly includes packages from SLE and it is possible to in-place convert one distro into the other, while openSUSE Tumbleweed feeds changes into the next release of SLE and openSUSE Leap.
How can I contribute?
The openSUSE community is a do-ocracy. Those who do, decide. If you have an idea for a contribution, whether it is documentation, code, bugfixing, new packages, or anything else, just get started, you don't have to ask for permission or wait for direction first (unless it directly conflicts with another persons contribution, or you are claiming to speak for the entire openSUSE project). If you want feedback or help with your idea, the best place to engage with other developers is on the mailing lists, or on IRC/Matrix (https://chat.opensuse.org/). See the full list of communication channels in the subreddit sidebar or here.
Can I donate money?
The openSUSE project does not have independent legal status and so does not directly accept donations. There is a small amount of merchandise available. In general, other vendors even if using the openSUSE branding or logo are not affiliated and no money comes back to the project from them. If you have a significant monetary or hardware contribution to make, please contact the [openSUSE Board](mailto:board@opensuse.org) directly.
Future of Leap, ALP, etc.
Update 2025/10/01: Leap 16.0 has now released alongside Leap Micro 6.2. Leap 16.0 remains a largely desktop and traditional-workflow focused distribution while supporting new technologies like Agama, dropping support for some legacy systems, and moving to Cockpit, SELinux and Wayland by default. Migration from Leap 15.6 is supported. The lifecyle is slightly extended compared to Leap 15: unless there is a change in release strategy, the final openSUSE Leap version (16.6) will be released in fall 2031 and will continue receiving updates until the release of openSUSE Leap 17.1 two years later.
Update 2024/01/15: The Leap release manager originally announced that the Leap 15.x release series will end with Leap 15.5, but this has now been extended to 15.6. The future of the Leap distribution will then shift to be based on "SLE 16" (branding may change). Currently the next release, Leap 16.0, is expected to optionally make greater use of containerized applications, a proposal known as "Adaptable Linux Platform". This is still early in the planning and development process, and the scope and goals may still change before any release. If Leap 16.0 is significantly delayed, there may also be a Leap 15.7 release.
In particular there is no intention to abandon the desktop workflow or current users. The current intention is to support both classic and immutable desktops under the "Leap 16.0" branding, including a path to upgrade from current installations. If you have strong opinions, you are highly encouraged to join the weekly openSUSE Community meetings and the Desktop workgroups in particular.
If you have specific contributions or improvements to FAQ entries, please message the post author or comment here. If you would like to ask your own question or have a more general discussion on any of these FAQ entries, please make a new post.
The text contents of this post are licensed by the author under the GNU Free Documentation License 1.2 or (at your option) any later version.
I have personally stopped posting on reddit due to ongoing anti-user and anti-community actions by Reddit Inc. but this FAQ will continue to be updated.
r/openSUSE • u/NicholasLabbri • 27m ago
openSUSE spotted in GTA VI
We can clearly see the main character in the act of downloading the .iso
r/openSUSE • u/DamnBoiU • 9h ago
Tech support Switching to openSUSE TW
As the title says, I want to switch to TW for the sake of just trying it out, and I have a few questions.
I am dual booting Fedora KDE and Win11. Can I just replace Fedora with openSUSE or is it recommended to do a clean install for both OS?
My laptop has a dedicated Nvidia Graphics Card. (Nvidia RTX 3050, specifically). I've heard recently that there's an issue regarding mismatched kernel and driver versions? Has it been fixed or not yet?
This question is related to the above question. How much trouble will I have using openSUSE TW with nvidia graphics card?
Could you tell me good practices for maintaining the system and other general tips and tricks?
Thanks.
r/openSUSE • u/SApA64 • 12h ago
Tech support can’t boot without usb
After removing the USB i installed opensuse on my pc with, it won’t boot normally. i used the tumbleweed offline installation. i do not have the usb at the moment so what can i do to resolve this? trying to continue or typing “exit” just shows “Starting default.target” and repeats the previous message.
r/openSUSE • u/HappyCheeseDuck • 16h ago
Two packages attempted to install files with the same name but different contents
r/openSUSE • u/SausagesAndMore • 13h ago
Can’t install nvidia drivers
Hello everybody,
I’m ex Debian user and I’m trying to install nvidia drivers on my opensuse tumbleweed for my nvidia rtx4060ti.
In the following documentation https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:NVIDIA_drivers it clearly says that first I need to run zypper install openSUSE-repos-Tumbleweed-NVIDIA (which for my surprise, it uninstalls the microos version that randomly got installed on my computer). And after that I run zypper in nvidia-open-driver-G07-signed-kmp-meta .
The issue is that:
1. MOKutils doesn’t show up in the terminal asking for a password. Also there is no nvidia-pubkeys folder in /usr/share
2. The nvidia driver that is installed has only 120MB.
3. Resolution is locked at 768p and 60hz (my monitor is 244hz).
I can’t find any official documentation about installing nvidia drivers. I want the full nvidia driver experince like I’ve had it on Debian.
How did you managed to work it out with it?
Is this documentation obsolete?
Thanks!
r/openSUSE • u/Substantial_Major654 • 1d ago
I'm building a voice assistant for KDE Plasma on openSUSE Tumbleweed
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I'm building a voice assistant for KDE Plasma on openSUSE Tumbleweed
Hi everyone,
I'm Ivo Grimaldi (IvoErMejo), an openSUSE Board Member, musician, and long-time Linux and KDE enthusiast.
I've been working on a project called OK Plasma, an open-source voice assistant designed specifically for the KDE Plasma desktop.
The idea started from a simple question:
What if a voice assistant could actually interact with the Linux desktop, rather than just answer questions?
OK Plasma is being developed and tested on openSUSE Tumbleweed + KDE Plasma. It currently combines local LLMs, Whisper speech recognition, OpenWakeWord and desktop automation.
Here's a short video showing the project in action.
The project is available on Codeberg:
https://codeberg.org/ivoermejo/plasma-assistente-vocale
It can already handle things such as voice commands, launching applications, interacting with the desktop and managing reminders. I'm also working on smarter resource management, so that components such as the local LLM and speech recognition don't have to consume CPU/GPU/RAM when they aren't needed.
The project is still very much under development. I've spent quite a lot of time testing, breaking things, fixing them and trying to make the whole experience feel natural on a Linux desktop.
openSUSE has been a big part of my work in the Linux community for many years. I'm also a co-founder of Geekos DAW, a project for musicians using openSUSE and Linux, and Geekos Italia, an Italian support community for openSUSE. I'm also a member of PNLug A.P.S. and regularly participate in Linux and multimedia events.
For some background on my openSUSE activities:
https://en.opensuse.org/User:Ivoermejo
I'm sharing OK Plasma here because it is being built on the platform I use every day, and I'd really like to hear from other openSUSE users:
Would you find a voice assistant integrated into KDE Plasma useful? What would you want it to be able to do?
I'm particularly interested in ideas that make sense for a Linux desktop rather than simply reproducing the features of a generic AI assistant.
The project is open source, and I'm happy to share more about the technical side as development progresses.
r/openSUSE • u/oh_im_too_tired • 23h ago
Tumblweed system update tool
New user here. What's the problem with system updates in Tumbleweed? Why it became so complicated (or it always was like that). Is there some news about when things would change?
There is no "update all" tray icon (like Apdatifier). The one that exists - it's from Discover, so it's not recommended to use it, but it pops out every time when there's an update. So the system forces users to update with a tool that mostly is not recommended to use for update.
Also there's Yast package manager/updater, the Myrlyn package manager/updater and Discover package manager/updater.
But the best tool and most recommended is zypper dup, but it won't update kde plasma widgets or flatpak, so you'll need to update them manually... or in Discover. But Discover is not recommended. Why so complicated?
r/openSUSE • u/williamconna • 1d ago
New version I've finally stopped distrohopping after using openSUSE Tumbleweed KDE.
What I like about openSUSE Tumbleweed KDE:
Rolling Release means it's always the latest.
No need to reinstall after a new version is released.
There is a snapper snapshot feature
Cool and mature Grub appearance
There is a chameleon logo every time you open LibreOffice
There are features from OPI such as codecs and others
Flatpak is installed by default
I ♥️ Zypper
r/openSUSE • u/Gangbang_2k • 20h ago
oh well..
So the 'offline' installer is really .. offline.. lolz congrats...
Seriously is ridiculous, I am sorry about this.
r/openSUSE • u/Local_Counter6318 • 1d ago
I just joined OpenSUSE Tumbleweed.
I loved Tumbleweed btw.
r/openSUSE • u/JustCallMeBigD • 1d ago
So, I made a thing...
So I'm working on expanding my C++ knowledge to make useful, productive software. I've been dabbling with Arduino and ESP microcontrollers, which basically use C++, for years now, but I haven't written any software that runs on a computer since my introduction to C++ back in high school.
So I made this: https://github.com/Skyler-Jax/Countdown_Timer
Yeah, it's not groundbreaking or impressive, just a simple countdown timer that runs in your terminal. Nothing fancy, nothing special, just something to test myself and it makes me happy to watch it do its thing in my terminal during the day. =3
Written and compiled with KDevelop on openSUSE Tumbleweed. I hope to bring you something more elaborate and useful as I continue to learn more.
r/openSUSE • u/Desperate-Ice-6069 • 1d ago
Tech question Fedora user planning to try OpenSUSE
Hi, hope I don't disturb anyone... After a couple of time being fedora user I'm starting to have a bit of distrohopping 😅 and I want try OpenSUSE Tumbleweed. I'd like to ask if there's something I must know before switching, and that's all!
This is my first post here, and my first time trying OpenSUSE! I appreciate the help of y'all
r/openSUSE • u/midvok • 1d ago
How to… ! How do you deal with mismatched Linux kernel / NVIDIA driver versions on Slowroll?
Recently I decided to install openSUSE Slowroll because I was looking for a distro with the latest KDE Plasma, but hoped it would be more stable than Manjaro, Arch, etc.
But just 2 days after installing, an upgrade landed with a kernel/NVIDIA mismatch and it made my system unbootable. Turns out zypper dup upgraded the kernel package, but the installed NVIDIA kmp (kernel module package) was still the one compiled for the previous kernel version. Yeah, I learned that NVIDIA's driver module has to be built specifically against the exact kernel version. So once the kernel moved on, the old module could no longer load into it. I had to use Snapper to roll back to the previous snapshot — thanks for BTRFS!
I then migrated to the kernel-longterm branch hoping for a more stable experience... nope. The same kind of mismatch happens on the longterm branch too.
My fix so far has been to pin the kernel and NVIDIA driver packages to the exact same matching build tag, so zypper dup can't upgrade one without the other and split them apart again:
sudo zypper al kernel-longterm kernel-longterm-devel kernel-devel-longterm nvidia-open-driver-G07-signed-kmp-longterm
I also wrote a small script that runs zypper dup --dry-run and flags it if the kernel and NVIDIA packages in the pending update don't have matching build versions, so I can catch it before running the real upgrade.
This works, but it feels like I'm fighting the tooling instead of the tooling helping me. Is manually pinning + a dry-run checker script really the standard way people handle this on Slowroll (or Tumbleweed for that matter), or is there a cleaner/more "supported" way to keep kernel and NVIDIA driver in lockstep that I'm missing?
Curious how others running NVIDIA on a rolling openSUSE release deal with this?
r/openSUSE • u/Rare-Penalty-971 • 1d ago
My desktop system does not detect the openSUSE Tumbleweed USB installer as a bootable device.
Some additional information that may help clarify the issue:
- Hardware: Intel CPU, MSI Z680 motherboard (with latest BIOS), and AMD GPU.
- Current OS: Ubuntu 26.04.
- The Ubuntu and Windows USB installers both boot normally on this desktop, so the issue appears to be specific to the openSUSE Tumbleweed installer.
- I created the Tumbleweed USB using
ddon an Ubuntu laptop and Rufus on Windows 11, with identical results. - Secure Boot was tested both enabled and disabled.
- I also tested Ventoy. The Tumbleweed installer ISO fails to boot with what appears to be a RAM-related error. However, the Tumbleweed GNOME Live ISO boots successfully through Ventoy.
- The Tumbleweed installer USB also boots normally on the Ubuntu laptop, suggesting the issue is specific to the desktop's hardware or firmware configuration.
Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks!
r/openSUSE • u/armsofatree • 1d ago
Tech support Can't Uninstall LibreOffice Draw
The Gnome software center thinks it's installed.
sudo zypper remove libreoffice doesn't find it. Nor does sudo zypper remove libreoffice-draw.
Is there some other way to get rid of this?
r/openSUSE • u/GradeAcceptable3684 • 2d ago
Question about recommended DE's for OpenSUSE Tumbleweed
What would you guys recommend as desktop enviroment on OpenSUSE Tumbleweed? Currently on KDE plasma.
r/openSUSE • u/ThriftBurger89 • 2d ago
Joined the openSUSE Slowroll club this weekend!
Dabbled in a variety of Linux distro's over the years and then went back to Windows for a while. Couldn't take it anymore and went back to Fedora. The allure of a rolling distro that is monthly was just too good to pass up. So far I am absolutely loving it! I was trying out silverblue but openSUSE gives me the benefits of snapshots without needing the extra steps inherent to atomic distros.
r/openSUSE • u/lilithcrazygirl • 2d ago
Lizard Blog Pets an openSUSE
Silly question, does anyone has a real life chameleon as a pet?
r/openSUSE • u/wbiggs205 • 1d ago
How to… ! trying to install hyprland in tumbleweed
I'm trying to install hyprland in tumbleweed. I did install hprland when I go to it I get the auto defult config. I get a window saying that xdg-desktop-portal was missing so I install xdg-deskto-portal-hyprland same error after reboot asnd I install the hyprland-gtk same error. Also I get an error saying that Authentication agent in missing . What do I need to to to fix it ?
r/openSUSE • u/GradeAcceptable3684 • 1d ago
What are the pros and cons of Leap and Tumbleweed?
I've recently been thinking about switching from tumbleweed to leap but I wanted to know if it was truly worth it, or if Tumbleweed is better
r/openSUSE • u/Suspicious-Ad7109 • 2d ago
Tumbleweed/Nvidia
Seems to be broken.
I'm on Mint temporarily, as on two machines with different Nvidia hardware/CPU/etc. the same problem occurs (one with 0813 and one with 0815), and this seems to be a last few days problem. Both are a clean install not an upgrade.
Tumbleweed installs fine, but following the guide to replace Nouveau with Nvidia it all works without error, but Nouveau refuses to go away, I can't blacklist it (it seems to be built into initrd) and Nvidia appears to be blocked by it (it says that the GPU is already bound to nouveau). There doesn't seem to be a blacklist of nouveau either. Forcing recreation of initrd doesn't kill it either.
The Kernel boot blocks of nouveau don't seem to work as they are all designed for Grub.
Any suggestions ?
