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Somehow my autologin has seized to respect my previous choice for session type. My Tumbleweed autologins me into KDE. I logout, manually choose GNOME and use the computer happily. Next time: I'm back to KDE again. I even tried logging in with Gnome chose, logging out, logging in again (this time it defaulted to Gnome as expected), and then rebooting. And back to KDE I was. Meh.

Currently using SDDM as the DM.

Any idea of how I could tell my otherwise friendly leetle computer that I would please prefer it booting into Gnome?

I want to migrate from Tumbleweed to Slowroll. I have a rather fresh install of Tumblweed with systemd-boot, so I want to retain that. Just waiting for them to get in sync on that.

Hello. I’ve installed Tumbleweed and my videos play fine, and streaming works well. Is it advisable to enable VA-API graphics acceleration via Packman for playing multimedia content in Tumbleweed? Thank you

Updating from Tumbleweed 20260331 to 20260415, zypper dup fails at accountsservice :(

error: lsetfilecon: (11 /usr/share/accountsservice, system_u:object_r:accountsd_share_t:s0) Invalid argument  
error: Plugin selinux: hook fsm_file_prepare failed  
error: unpacking of archive failed on file /usr/share/accountsservice: cpio: (error 0x2)  
error: accountsservice-23.13.9-11.3.x86_64: install failed  
error: accountsservice-23.13.9-11.2.x86_64: erase skipped  
(557/916) Installing: accountsservice-23.13.9-11.3.x86_64 ..................................................................................................[error]  
Installation of accountsservice-23.13.9-11.3.x86_64 failed:  
Error: Subprocess failed. Error: RPM failed: Command exited with status 1.  
Abort, retry, ignore? [a/r/i] (a): a  
Warning: %posttrans and %transfiletrigger scripts are not executed when aborting!  

What should I do?

I'm on Tumbleweed. I just launched the system and the first thing I tried was to refresh the Zypper repos. I got this error:

~> sudo zypper refresh  
[sudo] password for root: 
PackageKit is blocking zypper. This happens if you have an updater applet or other software  
management application using PackageKit running.  
We can ask PackageKit to interrupt the current action as soon as possible, but it depends on  
PackageKit how fast it will respond to this request.  
Ask PackageKit to quit? [yes/no] (no): no  
System management is locked by the application with pid 2648 (/usr/libexec/packagekitd).  
Close this application before trying again.  

I guess that's an intermittent issue. I'm new to Linux and new to openSUSE and until today I have not heard about PackageKit.

But something bothers me in the documentation:

In general, it is recommended to allow packagekit to handle system maintenance and software package updates since it contains background operations to ensure stable delivery with minimal interruptions. For this reason, newcomers to Tumbleweed should continue to use their respective software managers (Discover for Plasma, Gnome Software for Gnome) until there is an absolute need for manual intervention and/or greater understanding.

Elsewhere, when I was still researching which distro to choose and before installing Tumbleweed, I read that I should always use only zypper dup, never to use GNOME's Software updates or anything else (unless it's Flatpak). GNOME does display pending updates at times, but I ignore them. So how is it actually?

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?

screenshot

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!

I have gotten pretty used to Yast at this point, but I am curious to give Myrlyn a whirl. Definitely gonna be giving it a try.

Packages coming very soon https://openqa.opensuse.org/snapshot-changes/opensuse/Tumbleweed/diff/20250618

I had to reinstall Tumbleweed recently, and I think I made a bad choice in the installer when asked if my BIOS clock was UTC or not. Honestly, at the time, I wasn't sure.

When I boot my laptop, the clock is usually correct, but when I get back from lunch it shows 2 hours later than it really is. My timezone is UTC+2.

How do I fix this?

Following the announcement of the demise of YaST, I adapted my tumbleweed installation to the new setup by installing Myrlyn and Cockpit, and removing YaST:

sudo zypper rm -u yast*

However it’s already been a couple of times that when I zypper dup several yast packages get pulled in for installation.

Is this how it’s supposed to be? Or can I prevent this behaviour?

Thanks!

I’d like to install Leap 15.6 on an older laptop which is currently running Tumbleweed.

I have a single partition with btrfs and the standard subvolumes created during the original Tumbleweed installation.

Can I install Leap while preserving the btrfs @home subvolume? I played a bit the partitioner in expert mode but couldn’t find an obvious way.

Thanks!