So I've been looking for a light, preferably rolling linux release for my 15 year old Thinkpad T61. And I have to say, I think I'll stick with the Icewm (Generic Desktop) option quit a lot. It's fully functional and pretty snappy on this old beasty.

Anybody else install this as a midpoint and decide to stay?

Which desktop environment has good implementation and integration with opensuse tumbleweed?

Which desktop environment opensuse tumbleweed users prefer to use?

Things happened and I need to reinstall my OS. This time I wish to make it lean, while maintaining proper KDE installation. I have been using SUSE since 2006 so you can pretty much expect me to know what I'm doing.

I'll be using this primarily for web browsing. Other than games, offices, and multimedia and graphics editing patterns, can you recommend me non-critical packages/patterns that I can get rid of?

I recently got back on openSUSE after 10 years or more. I've been running Leap 15.3 for about a week now and many times I'll search for a desktop-centric package to find there's a version for Tumbleweed but not Leap. I'm working around the problem with flatpaks and appimages but I'm wondering if Tumbeweed has become preferred over Leap for everyday desktop users.

Well pretty much the title. I have been trying it out for 10-12 days now. What kind of devices is this distro optimized for? Because its buttery smooth and works great on my laptop. My workloads run on par with my newer and better specced work laptop( windows 11) which is insane.

And how come people don't recommend it more often? I didn't even know about OpenSUSE till maybe a month ago when someone suggested it on another subreddit. I was a windows person until recently and initially I tried out Fedora which also runs well but they had other issues.

Although granted I don't play games, so maybe the experience will be different for other folks.

I asked this because I feel like people have something against tumbleweed like there is something really wrong with it or something...maybe its just me but I got the impression from this sub that not everyone likes it

I haven't tried tumbleweed yet but I actually think its cool and want to try it out

Hi, I’ve been using Linux for around 4 years and I’ve gone through many different distros. The latest and current one is Linux Mint, but I’ve decided to make a change and I’ve chosen openSUSE with XFCE.

Is there anything I should know beforehand, or anything you would recommend? I’m really excited to try this distro, it has caught my attention a lot and I think it could end up being one of my favorites.

Thanks!

Without anything else? I have tried both installers and none of them give me any kind of option beyond xfce, gnome and kde. There is the generic desktop option, but idk what is meant by that since im new to opensuse. Should i just get the server version without the gui and install wayland and sway on it?

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new to linux, interested in tumbleweed because of its ease of gaming

My Linux journey began around 1996 with SuSE 4.2. At some point, however, I started to hate the system with its reliance on YaST, and since then I've constantly switched Linux distributions. I ended up with Arch Linux, Fedora, and of course Debian. These three distro almost perfectly met my needs. But in January, after reading much about Tumbleweed, I installed a "SuSE Linux" again...after almost 30 years. Okay, I cheated a little bit and ignored YaST and Grub2-BLS during the installation, but what I have to admit afterward: it's fantastic, mindblowing. Tumbleweed is the sweet spot among all the distributions I used. It has (almost) the stability of Debian, almost the up-to-dateness of Arch Linux, and is just as polished as Fedora. Kudos to the entire openSUSE team, what a great job! After almost three decades, I embrace the chameleon again! But why is Tumbleweed still so underrated when its perhaps one of the best distros on the planet? Or am I wrong?

Edit: Thanks everyone for your suggestions. Many of you told many things. Many said that is a good OS, so I think openSUSE is for me. I will try Tumbleweed first, anyway, and if something went wrong, or I don't like it, I will go with Leap or some other Linux distro

Hey r/openSUSE community! I've been using Linux Mint for a while on my AMD+NVIDIA laptop, and so far, it's been the only distro that works great out of the box. However, I'm intrigued by openSUSE Tumbleweed and its rolling release model. I'm wondering if any of you could share your experiences and help me understand if Tumbleweed would be a good fit for my needs.

Here are some of my concerns:

1. Out-of-the-box experience: Will I get a similar hassle-free experience with Tumbleweed as I did with Mint, particularly regarding hardware compatibility?

2. Battery life: How does openSUSE Tumbleweed perform in terms of battery life on laptops? Is it comparable to Mint?

3. Update frequency and stability: I know Tumbleweed is a rolling release distro, so how frequently do I need to update it? What happens if I don't update it for a while?

4. Graphics driver stability: Will my graphics drivers (particularly NVIDIA) break after every update, or is the process relatively smooth?

I appreciate any insights or advice you can offer! Thanks in advance for your help, everyone!

In theory OpenSUSE Tumbleweed looks like one of the best Linux distributions out there, and I wanted to ask if there is really no catch.

• access to newest software, but all updates are thoroughly tested (so better than Ubuntu and most Ubuntu based distributions, and less error prone than Fedora or Arch)

• btrfs out of the box, so it's easy to recover from errors, without having to rely on atomic systems (which have certain drawbacks)

• has actual control panel with user interface (yast), most distributions have very limited settings

• has multiple DE options, so you are not tied to single one (could have more, but KDE and GNOME should satisfy 99% of users)

Unless you want something extremely user friendly (like Ubuntu), it looks like OpenSUSE Tumbleweed has everything you would ever want.

There seems to be one catch though - there are no media codecs included, I'm currently trying to figure out how to install them, but once you know how to deal with it, it's honestly a non issue. At least it connects to the internet out of the box.

Here's my thought:

• It could be the only rolling release distro that supports secure boot out of the box (correct me if I am wrong). People who doesn't want to mess with too much BIOS settings can just plug in the installation media, changing the boot order, and they're good to go.

• It has some packages optimized in x86-64-v3. So, that's a free performance gain without any procedure required from the user side. For example, with darktable currently, if you run ldd /usr/bin/darktable | grep x86-64-v3, you will see many x86-64-v3 optimized libs. Great!

• All the major web browsers, e.g. Google Chrome, MS Edge, and Brave, provide the repo for openSUSE officially, contrary to Arch where none of the official repo are available. So, for Arch based distros, the users have to use those browsers in a Tumbleweed container to get the browsers straight from the official sources.

• The official package manager, Myrlyn, is a must to have. I don't have to remember many zypper commands for simple package management, or even when I just want to search and see package's details.

• It's backed by a corporation, as an upstream for the backer's paid products. In other word, it's a sustainable distro that wouldn't disappear the other day in the morning. This ensures a peace of mind for the end users.

• From my experience in many instances, bug reports are being taken quickly and seriously. I can't say the same from my experience with Ubuntu and Fedora.

• OpenQA is another layer of testing, potentially makes the distro more stable, and harder to the breakage due to bad packages.

Now, what I don't like about it:

• Patterns. I don't like the fact that I have to block so many packages to prevent them from installing without my permission.

• Media codecs circumvent. Unlike Arch based distros where proprietary media codecs are provided in the official repo, PackMan is required. Some would say, there's Flatpak. But I would argue Flatpak doesn't support every use case. Even the file manager (Nautilus), which is the most basic use case, is still far from being Flatpaked, making it impossible to have any useful thumbnail for most of my media files. IMO, even though I know full well regarding the reason, but by relying on a 3rd-party repo on such a basic task is undeniably adding security risk/attack surface on the system.

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I just want to say thank you to everyone for all the amazing work!

Have a great day!

I work with a few startups and earlier today, something needed to be printed. They had an old HP Laser printer hooked up to a laptop running Arch Linux (I think) and by the time I arrived, they already installed around 100MB worth of packages, rebooted countless times, started all kinds of services and still, no dice. The HP icon wouldn't even start the app.

As I talked to Greg, I noticed the YAST icon in his panel and asked if they already tried to print from his machine. Since they didn't, we pulled the printer as close as we could as the power bar was not easily reachable and upon plugging the USB cable into his workstation, a popup showed that openSUSE Tumbleweed found a new printer.

By this time, the desktop had gone into suspend mode and after Greg logged back in, we fetched the PDF and it printed on the first try. Big smiles.

It is moments like those that opinions about a Linux distribution get formed that stand the test of time.

I am sure that plenty of you have similar stories.