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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"

Leap 16 is out now: >https://get.opensuse.org/leap/16.0/ (downloading from Stockholm)
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openSUSE marks its 20th anniversary, celebrating two decades of open-source passion, community collaboration, and Linux excellence.

Working toward the stable openSUSE Leap 16.0 release in late 2025, the release candidate period has begun for this Linux distribution aligned with SUSE Linux Enterprise 16 sources.

Hello! I am running Tumbleweed on a desktop with an RTX 4070 and I am have tried to run sudo zypper dup 3 times now over the last 2 months and each time it has messed up my nvidia graphics drivers somehow causing me to revert to the snapshot taken just before the zypper dup. I thought at the time that there was just some issue that would be resolved which is why I kept reverting but at this point I just need to bite the bullet and figure out how to fix it.

I have attempted to uninstall and reinstall the drivers several times using the command. sudo zypper remove \*nvidia\* && sudo zypper install x11-video-nvidiaG06 The only notable thing that this seems to do is fix my resolution from like 480p to 1080p, but only for the next reboot. However even with the resolution change it seems that the nvidia gpu is not being used at all.

sudo prime-select get-current tells me that there is "no driver configured"

The command xrandr --listproviders prints

Providers: number : 1 Provider 0: id: 0x40; cap: 0x2 (Sink Output); crtcs: 1; outputs: 1; associated providers: 0; name: modesetting output None-1

Also task manager (or whatever) can't detect the gpu I guess?

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I'm still pretty new to linux so any and all guidance is greatly appreciated. Thanks!

Read a distrowatch review that dropped earlier today discussing the two of them and kind of tears them apart: https://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20250714. I used both a year or so ago and Aeon seemed to perform well enough, but I was pretty disappointed with Kalpa. What are folks experiences with them and how do they compare with something like Fedora Atomic Desktops if you have experience with both?

Don't personally use 32-bit arm but if you do and want to express your view or contribute you should check this out!

Congrats openSUSE on 20 years of being the best OS out there!

Haven't tried this installer yet but I am interested to give it a go next time I setup another suse based system!