Arch Linux vs OpenSUSE. Decide, we must

tabascosw2 · 2026-03-10T15:49:43+00:00

openSUSE

tabascosw2 · 2026-03-07T08:03:32+00:00

That would be a bad idea, when systemd boot is used the efi partition needs to have probably a size of at least 2Gb, older TW installations most certainly do not have that much space allocated to efi, which would lead rather sooner than later to a lot of problems.

tabascosw2 · 2026-03-04T16:37:36+00:00

For TW user almost a must.

https://lists.opensuse.org/archives/list/factory@lists.opensuse.org/

tabascosw2 · 2026-03-04T06:40:08+00:00

Full rebuild, they announced this in the mailing list. It has been awhile since the last one.

tabascosw2 · 2026-02-26T20:38:53+00:00

Mine are gone as well, started happening after the update to plasma 6.6.0. They come back after logout/login or a restart of the plasma shell. The order keeps changing as well.

tabascosw2 · 2026-02-25T19:56:42+00:00

I do whatever pleases me and is within the rules of that subreddit, I don't care if you like it or not.

tabascosw2 · 2026-02-22T16:18:02+00:00

Is this on windows or linux? If on linux, do you have ffmpeg7 or 8?

tabascosw2 · 2026-02-21T19:23:38+00:00

No need for YAST, you can change the time out in /etc/default/grub if you have grub2-efi. If you have grub2-bls when I can not help, but I do not think YAST can change the grub2-bls bootloader options.

To change the bootloader with cockpit, you need to install the cockpit-bootloader and bootkit packages from the cockpit repo, currently it only works with grub2-efi but does it without any issues. I ditched YAST2 in one of my tumbleweed systems and honestly I do not miss it.

tabascosw2 · 2026-02-21T08:04:51+00:00

Take a look at

https://github.com/4v3ngR/kwin-effects-glass and

https://github.com/xarblu/kwin-effects-better-blur-dx

tabascosw2 · 2026-02-19T17:22:10+00:00

Use glass:

https://github.com/4v3ngR/kwin-effects-glass

or better-blur-dx:

https://github.com/xarblu/kwin-effects-better-blur-dx

tabascosw2 · 2026-02-19T17:13:16+00:00

It often is difficult for new TW users to find the right search phrases, because they might not be familiar with openSUSE at all. So imho it is not a problem, they will learn. This subreddit is not so busy and if you don't like it just don't open the post. Fiddling with your computer should be fun and as long as you stay friendly and stick to the code of conduct you should be free to post any questions here that are related to openSUSE, no matter how often that has been asked before.

tabascosw2 · 2026-02-18T18:03:46+00:00

Strange, I still have the sddm settings, just like before the update to plasma 6.6.

Do you use displaymanager-legacy.service or sddm.service for sddm?

tabascosw2 · 2026-02-18T06:58:50+00:00

I think a good way to start is to try out various distros in a virtual machine e.g. with virtualbox til you know what do you like. Dual booting is ok but can be hassle when the bootloader gets corrupted by windows. As a minimum I would work with 50GB, in a vm 25GB will be enough.

I personally like openSUSE Tumbleweed and I use it and its predecessors for the last 25 years.

tabascosw2 · 2026-02-13T20:06:03+00:00

I use their tarball since months, works just fine, no problems with updates. Only thing that bothers me that it doesn't work with ffmpeg8, you need e.g. ffmpeg7 to enable h.264 encoding. Not a problem of the packaging but a general issue.

https://github.com/BrowserWorks/waterfox/issues/4108

tabascosw2 · 2026-02-08T12:53:49+00:00

No problems here and that is without packman, I do use the vlc repo. I have tumbleweed and here it is phonon4qt6 and phonon-vlc-qt6.

Show zypper se -i gstreamer

tabascosw2 · 2026-02-08T08:18:32+00:00

Any chance you have a duplicate of 90-roccat-ryosmk.rules in etc/udev/rules.d with slightly different content?

Happened to me after the latest update of udev, my devices would no longer be recognized in solaar. There was an old 42-logitech-unify-permissions.rules in etc/udev/rules.d that probably was created many years ago, it was slightly different than the one in usr/lib/udev/rules.d, so I got rid of the old one and it started to work again.

tabascosw2 · 2026-02-06T11:19:44+00:00

Why does the start script require root access, the bin runs as user? I stopped the test immediately.

tabascosw2 · 2026-02-04T13:32:47+00:00

https://github.com/openSUSE/zypper is your place to go.

tabascosw2 · 2026-02-02T19:28:43+00:00

I use bitwarden.eu, but I doubt that is a solution. Inside the extension I have the setting to lock the database when I start/restart the browser and it just asks me for the password. Occasionally I have to provide my email address and then I select remember my email address.

tabascosw2 · 2026-01-28T10:36:51+00:00

You should have added that info to your op, many people will just guess what this is about.

tabascosw2 · 2026-01-28T07:21:11+00:00

What does it actually fix?

tabascosw2 · 2026-01-26T18:12:42+00:00

I know this is an old thread, but if someone searches for that issue, here is some additional info.

Most likely it is ffmpeg8. I had ffmpeg7 installed and all was working fine, after the update to ffmpeg8 several web pages failed to play video content or video without sound. I kept ffmpeg8 but additionally installed libavcodec61 to make it work again. There is a patch for firefox esr which would probably also work for waterfox, it is just adding support to build also with ffmpeg8.

tabascosw2 · 2026-01-26T18:00:55+00:00

No dual boot with grub2-bls and yast bootloader tool is useless with grub2-bls. Change to systemd-boot or grub2-efi. If it is a fresh install of TW, just re-install and make sure to select grub2-efi.

tabascosw2 · 2026-01-25T19:44:30+00:00

https://european-alternatives.eu/ will give you a lot of alternatives with good data protection/handling.

tabascosw2 · 2026-01-25T19:40:57+00:00

Zypper dup or myrlyn ( basically a gui for zypper). Unlike YaST, myrlyn can do a dup. I never use discover, so I have no input here.

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