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?

Last time I updated with sudo zypper dup, it forgot all about my gpu and had to uninstall the Nvidia drivers it forced me to install through the update, and the reinstall the G07 drivers that fits my 3050 card.

Is there a more proper way of doing this in OpenSUSE for a newbie? Would be very helpful if Myrlyn or something else was made for this, so if you wound up with a wrong driver after a major update, you could just use myrlyn (or something else) to autodetect and install the right driver (and also force it to run on your machine for all applications).

Okay, so, last time I used SuSE was with SuSE 8.0, that I eventually upgraded to SuSE 8.2, IIRC, until I started feeling like "nah, this isn't my thing", and moved to Ubuntu when that thing came out. And then it's been mostly Linux Mint since that one came to existence.

And now I'm getting a bit fed up with some stuff about my current Ubuntu installation and, since enough weeks have passed since the previous try, decided to already give SuSE another go.

Anyway, it feels odd how narrow the software catalogue seems to be. For Matrix I only seem to have nheko, and that's it. No Element, no FluffyChat. Just nheko. Might work just fine, but it's butt-ugly. And it took some hunting to even figure out it exists. zypper search matrix didn't find it.

How does one actually properly find programs to install for this thing?

I recently switched to OpenSuse Slowroll on my desktop, while my laptop is still running Mint.

What I really miss is the Web App Manager on Linux Mint that allows you to install websites as an app on the desktop. I liked to use it especially for streaming services, because I usually clear all browser data, when I close it. So the Web App was a good option to have a single site with permanent cookies to avoid logging in after ever restart. And having this separated from the normal browser was also nice.

So I wonder, if there is a similar option for OpenSuse or some other workaround I am missing.

From snapshot 20260226 to 20260304 with all of texlive.

I swear I haven't had this issue before, but every time now I install a fresh TumbleweedOS installation, from the get-go, it won't see the nVidia drivers at all. I have tried with a pc with rtx3050 and a pc with gtx1060. Both I had to do "crazy stuff" in terminal, to force it to use my gpu. This is freaking weird. (Haven't been able to fix the 1060 setup yet..)

Any ideers what I do wrong?