r/openSUSE

I want to create a backup using rsync. If I replace my hard drive, will I be able to use these backups without any issues? Is it possible to back up the entire file system, including configuration files? Also, do you have any resources you can recommend for restoring the data?

Hey fellas,

+15 years Solutions Architect here, not boasting just basing my thoughts. And no, not LLM written. By the way, I am opinionated, I take it :) I'm the kind of Linux user who wants to get things done, do the work, not fight the tools.

I've been using OpenSUSE as a daily driver for a while, to the point I even forgot I was using it. I'm dual-booting it because I still play some anti-cheat games and rely on audio drivers for low-latency interfaces. Productive work stays here though. Anyway, wanted to share my love for it:

- Up to date? For Desktop users, state of the art software and runtime libraries is key. Bugs get fixed all the time, new features and performance improvements are added, and security patches addressed. I get it, point-based distributions still update on security patches, but daily drivers rely on up to date things, obviously I'm mainly speaking of the Desktop Environment stack. Unless you are using the system for critical runtime, users shouldn't need to be on an outdated desktop environment for months out of fear of breaking it.

- Stability? You have it, OpenSUSE has an incredible delivery quality for a rolling-release distribution. I've rarely, if ever, seen it break on an update.

- Upgrade concerns? Non-existent, true rolling distribution means you do things progressively, not in big cumulative jumps that require snapshot quality proof. To my philosophy, it fits.

- Pragmatism? You've got it. OpenSUSE achieves perfectly safe commercially licensed distribution methods. Zypper gets the job done, and repositories are a cake to deal with. You can ignore YaST, or you can appreciate it for not having to remember or google search a bunch of command line commends tot get things done.

- Long-term concerns? Yes, fancy and hype distros are maintained by singular "hero" or a group of garage enthusiasts. No offence (and all due respect), but when one of those people needs to take care of life, rotation hits them hard. Organizations on the other hand have more sustainable lifecycles, even when the project is community maintained, it matters to know who is behind.

- Support and Compatibility? This is .rpm based, obviously second to .deb packages, is still among the two formats supported by licensed software and vendors. Flatpak takes care of the rest. The trickiest part is perhaps to survive when you find guides for Ubuntu where the library you need to install has a completely different name in Suse (the whole -devel vs lib- conventions)

What can I say, for me, it ticks all my boxes. It's by far the most flawless experience I've ever had. I am not sure I'd recommend it out of the box to newcomers (don't hurt me, I do recommend Ubuntu, and not the hype-distros that get things complicated), as I'm deep into Linux.

I wouldn't say it is a Distribution that talks absolute newcomers' language, it talks systemd and btrfs and zypper, but if you know what you're doing, the heck, this is unbeatable.

Anyways, huge kudos to the maintainers of this distribution, to the community that supports it and its users, and to all Open Software supporters. I'm all down for a more transparent and open system adoption, without falling into extremes :)

Thanks for being home when I have to get things done!

If I run the following:

# Tell me what installed packages are unnecessary
zypper pa --unneeded

Zypper tells me that it considers sqlite3 (and some other packages) to be unneeded.

However, if I run:

# Tell me what currently installed packages require sqlite3
zypper se -i --requires sqlite3

Zypper tells me that there are multiple installed packages that require sqlite3.

I would assume that because there are packages requiring sqlite3, zypper shouldn't list it as being unneeded.

Do I have an incorrect understanding of how these commands work? Could this point to some kind of corrupted install? Or could this be a zypper bug?

Hello, please help me solving this problem. I have been using Fedora Silverblue for 3-4 years. I have all my apps on flatpak and under a distrobox. I am pretty happy with Silverblue but for political reasons what to drop as much USA affiliated software as possible. Leap seems to be all I need - stable, active community, corporate affiliation...and here comes my problem. I need it immutable as I do not want to break something by mistake on my workstation. Do not want to go for Aeon as it tracks Tumbleweed - dont need rolling base. So the options are Leap as it is or Leap micro with gnome_basic or MicroOS with gnome_basic. I am not grasping the difference between MicroOS and Leap micro...yet is it possible to get either of them with gnome and live happily ever after with the result? Any advice appriciated, thank you!

I'm wondering if an update/snapshot has been pulled? Yesterday (I think) I updated my laptop, and one of the things that came with it was kernel 6.19.12. Today, I did not get that update on my desktop. If I check my laptop today, I am greeted with 500+ packages to be downgraded.

This is weird. :) Haven't seen this one before.

During installation of OpenSuse Leap 16 Gnome the language was set to German. Under Settings > Region & Language, everything is set to German. The keyboard Layout is also correct.

The Filemanager shows me english filestructure, the Settings application shows a German menu but english content and the window title is also Settings. The overview of the apps is also german. The apps are in english.

I just want everything in german.

I simply cannot find it. I try the usual suspects where it should be according to arch wiki, but there's nothing there.

Any ideas? Because the bootloader itself works just fine. I just want to change the default timer on it from 7 seconds to 1.

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I installed the drivers as how wiki suggested it. I couldn't launch CS2 for a couple of hours while I was looking into it and suddenly it started launching, after a little while, I tried launching it again and the problem solved itself. But from steam output, my gpu is not recognised. Is it caused by the drivers are to new to be recognised by steam or I did something wrong?

edit: I discovered another problem, discord entire screen sharing doesn't work as well. I can share a single window without an issue, but entire screen is just pitch black.

Hey all

Im considering trying Opensuse for gaming - Im currently on Solus and wondering if theres going to be much difference between them really?

Solus has kernel 6.18 - I believe Suse is on 6.19?

Not sure on Mesa.

Ive got a full AMD build with a 7600x and 9070 xt. Machine is only used for gaming.

I’m writing this to say goodbye to openSUSE. It has, by far, been the best Linux experience I’ve had since 2022.

Reason: Work requirements — I’m required to use Windows and Microsoft Office.

However, this isn’t a final goodbye. As soon as I can afford another computer, I’ll be back to SUSE. Next time, I’ll move away from Tumbleweed and switch to Slowroll — I really love its concept and philosophy.

Thank you to everyone who helped answer my questions and supported me during these past three months using the system. I’ll still be around to help newcomers, just as I was helped, and to keep up with the distribution’s updates.

See you around. Thank you 🫂🫂

I have two computers:

Main gaming/work PC: AMD Ryzen 7 5700X CPU, AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT, 32GB RAM, 512GB MVMe/M2 SSD, 1TB MVMe/M2 SSD. Use case is LibreOffice, Internet use (Chrome/Firefox and Discord), Scribus publishing, Python coding on VSCode, and moderate to heavy single-player gaming. Currently running Kubuntu Interim.

Work laptop: Lenovo ThinkPad T480s, 8th gen. Intel i7 CPU, Intel UHD 620 GPU, 16GB RAM, 512GB SSD. Use case is Internet, LibreOffice, and light/retro gaming. Currently running Linux Mint XFCE.

I am using Linux on and off for a decade now, mostly Ubuntu-based distros, but also a bit of Q4OS.

Note that I like KDE!

Thinking of moving the desktop PC and maybe also the laptop to OpenSUSE Tumbleweed. I really like what I read about OpenSUSE, and my newer gaming hardware will probably benefit from the newer software in Tumbleweed.

Do you recommend the move?

Also, what should I watch out for when installing and starting to use OpenSUSE Tumbleweed? It will be my first non-Debian-ecosystem distro.

I know it's probably unfair asking this on this sub, but you guys know this distro the best. So i have a thinkpad t14 gen 1 amd, i have used arch hyprland eos kde and now fedora kde. My question is if i will see big changes if i switch to TW regarding my kde experience. Im using this laptop as a daily driver and i want to see what benefits would i get, I heard yast is not being worked on amymore, so what does OpenSUSE offer me. plus i like chameleon

I wanna switch to Gnome without reinstalling. I know how to install the Gnome pattern in YaST, but uninstalling KDE is where I’m a little uncertain.

Can I just uncheck/uninstall it in YaST or will that mess up something else up? And if so what would I need to install together with Gome to keep it from happening?

I’ve done some searching but it seemingly just work as easy as described above and that makes me a little skeptical.

Oh, I’m on Tumbleweed, not scared of the terminal or tinkering.

I'm currently a Debian user, as I value reliability a lot. But I heard that openSUSE has exceptional QA testing with a rolling release model and an out-of-the-box snapshot system. I think I'd prefer this over Debian's overly stable model, as I often run into dependency hell when trying to compile certain apps from GitHub for example.

But I have a few concerns:

- I heard video codecs can fail, as they are provided by a 3rd party that doesn't reliably keep up with updates. How often can I expect this to mess with my business, and is there a way to prevent it? I'd rather hold the update for a while than have things unexpectedly break on me.

- I heard video codecs can break on Mesa drivers due to some patents. Is that something that anyone here has experienced? And if so, is there a one-time fix that you don't have to bother with ever again?

- I heard openSUSE has some libraries that, even though they use the same version as all others, they're built different and have some rare incompatibility issues. Is this a real concern or just some unlucky 1:100000 occurrence?

- I heard certain things work and are organized rather oddly compared to other distros. Can I expect to run into issues because of this?

- How supported is openSUSE when it comes to installing not-so-mainstream apps? Is there a community repo for these things?

- Snapshots are cool. But, from the screenshots I've seen of it, openSUSE seems to save DOZENS of them. Is there a way to limit it to just the last 3 or 5? How much space does a snapshot usually hold?

- Can I convert my drive from ext4 to BTRFS without wiping its contents? And would it be recommended to do so?

- I heard openSUSE is kinda bloated and it also reinstalls things you remove without asking. Is there a way to stop that, and is it easy to do so?

- Can I freeze stuff like GNOME and all that depends on it on a lower version (like 49) until all extensions that I use are updated? Also can I downgrade packages?

- Does Secure Boot work okay with no compromises on openSUSE?

- Ultimately, is there anything else other than what I've mentioned?

I've been interested in openSUSE for a long time and I've been collecting all the possible issues I could expect out of it. I really like the philosophy of it and how much the community loves this distro and welcomes new members. I'm pretty much on the verge of switching, but I wanna make sure there are no deal-breakers before I jump boat.

I know that updating from Discover is discouraged, and I only update my system using zypper dup. For Flatpaks I make an exception, as they are independent entities.

However, I feel unsure about the "Application Support" category inside of Discover. zypper dup doesn't update these and it seems like they might belong towards Flatpaks, as when clicking on the individual item to update, it says "update from: Flatpak". But as there were so many dependencies to be updates listed in the update notes, I would want to ask before blindly updating.

Is this "Application Support" category, aside from installed Flatpak applications, something I do want to use Discover updates for?

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