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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?