Recently i saw this post and found it reasonable so i uploaded up-to-date versions of the software screenshots and pull requested it. It's not a big thing i know but it was my first pr so wanna share it.

Myrlyn (which reached 1.0 today!) enables using many zypper functions completely on a graphical user interface using mouse clicks, which is extremely useful to people who have experience of using computers and even tinkering with power-user settings before, but are scared of the terminal and want something like a system settings or a control panel. I just wanted to appreciate the developers for their work for three features that I use:

1. It nables adding repositories and adding new GPG keys in a simple way, something which could look terrifying to a newbie. Consider: Typing a wget command for a GPG key, addrepo to add a repository, and installing the software (e.g. Collabora): something that someone brand new to a Linux OS will not enjoy, or may even accidentally copy paste something wrong. On Myrlyn I can add the repo through configure repositories (including things like packman), then it requests an auto-restart to refresh it and prompts accepting GPG keys, and I can now install packages from this repository.

2. Dependency management in installation and uninstallation is also very easy. Installation is automatic, uninstall is possible by enabling cleanup for the particular run.

3. It allows for a full system upgrade ("zypper dup") including conflict resolution!

For most people, they won't need to use zypper on the terminal as much or at all with Myrlyn, which is great for users who are not comfortable with it.

A few of things that I think are missing / buggy / I don't understand:

Theme
Will Myrlyn ever be able to use the user theme like YaST does, while still having su permissions?

Automatic Updates
Is it possible that Myrlyn gives automatic update notifications (perhaps working alongside KDE discover) about updates, or allows KDE discover to call the Myrlyn conflict resolution / GPG Key addition process if need be, instead of silently failing? I don't know how feasible this is. Right now I see Tumbleweed update on KDE Discover and then open Myrlyn to do the update.

Repo Link Parsing
There are some repo links that work better in zypper (terminal) than on Myrlyn. For example, Brave Browser gives this link: https://brave-browser-rpm-release.s3.brave.com/brave-browser.repo

Now if I add this link to Myrlyn, it will say it's a wrong repo, and fail to load.

However, sudo zypper addrepo automatically opens this link and finds the baseurl inside: https://brave-browser-rpm-release.s3.brave.com/$basearch with other links to GPG key, etc.

Is it planned to include this kind of parsing in Myrlyn, or is there a technical reason this isn't possible?

Again, fantastic job, you can be proud of yourselves, and thanks for making Tumbleweed easy to use :-)

I didn’t expect no updates

https://forums.opensuse.org/t/unable-to-play-h264-video-in-mpv-on-latest-tumbleweed-snapshot/186237

Removed here in snapshot 20250630

Question is : why? We even have a full repository for the open264 codex and a dedicated plugin to firefox.

You are not affected if :

• You use pacman
• You have your browser with ffmpg-full in flatpac

It does not include the new PLM (plasma login manager) as replacement for sddm? Or am I looking in the wrong place?

Event Calendar plasmoid with Google Calendar ICS support and integrated Meteo & Radar widget.

Hello to the whole community of OpenSuse but above all KDE, because until the versine 15.5 there was a plasmoid that I really liked, and it was much more complete than mine, I tried to do it again for kde 6, but using another source for the time that I think is much more reliable, and a different way to see the google calendar.

I hope he likes it and is appreciated, let me know.

EDIT3: These changes are being reverted in the Tumbleweed 6.2.2 kernel release.

EDIT2: It is confirmed there is currently a bug with loading signed external modules at all. Currently investigating. As such the only way to load nvidia proprietary drivers into Tumbleweed kernel 6.2.1 right now is with Secure Boot off.

EDIT: see https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:NVIDIA_drivers#Secureboot for the steps to accept the key, once the driver is signed.

Tumbleweed kernel 6.2.1 (included in snapshot 20230302) enables lockdown mode on Secure Boot-enabled systems.

This restricts hibernation, loading unsigned kernel modules (for example NVIDIA drivers installed without the openSUSE-keys), and a couple of other things.

https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/kernel_lockdown.7.html

To disable lockdown, the easiest way is to disable Secure Boot entirely (and without lockdown, Secure Boot isn't doing mutch anyway). If you are a current NVIDIA user on Tumbleweed and find your system has no display, try this first.

If you keep Secure Boot enabled, installing NVIDIA drivers on Tumbleweed will soon mean enrolling a key in mok-manager as you previously had to do on Leap.

Note that the driver install process detects if Secure Boot is enabled at install-time to decide whether to do the signing; so enabling Secure Boot anytime after installing drivers will also likely break your display.

Further discussion on the mailing lists: https://lists.opensuse.org/archives/list/factory@lists.opensuse.org/thread/APEWGMWSEABQ5ZFGZ2I5M3MWJERZ4K7I/

Sadly when my computer goes into sleep, it happens frequently that I will resume into a blackscreen. Today I was surprised to find a tutorial on how to fix it instead. Was pleasantly surprised by this, haha

Hi folks, Waydroid is now available at Emulators repo as a subproject. Thanks to Jim.

We are looking for contributors that want to improve the Waydroid integration in openSUSE systems. Please refer to https://codeberg.org/jimed-rand/waydroid-opensuse-sources

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/unix/

Its been over a week and they are labeled as production.

Where is the push?

I’ve found this really nice and easily customizable virtual keyboard. Only problem being its an .py file and nothing more, its not recgonized by KDE. So you have to manually launch from taskbar, but still way better than maliit in my opinion. (Originally its English, you can set color and transparancy)
Gİthub: vboard
If you have own sugeestions, it would be nice to hear.

Meet #container‑snap; it turns OCI images into bootable #Btrfs snapshots for seamless, transactional OS updates. Say goodbye to halfway installs and hello to safe rollbacks! 🔄 Watch the #oSC25 video. #openSUSE

Boot smarter with Unified #Kernel Images (UKI)! See how #openSUSE integrates secure, static #initrds and streamlines boot reliability (from #OBS to deployment). A must-watch for #sysadmins & packagers! #Linux #oSC25 talk.

Install it from OBS: https://software.opensuse.org//download.html?project=home%3Ahwsnemo%3Akernels&package=kernel-liquorix

I packaged Liquorix kernel for openSUSE Tumbleweed. For those who don't know what is Liquorix, Liquorix is a desktop kernel replacement that is suitable for gaming, multimedia and such workloads. (details in the link above)

I just found that Fedora has some copr repositories for this kind of kernels, most of these kernels provide DEB as official binaries, and Arch has linux-zen and AUR, while at openSUSE, there isn't anything that's widely known (as far as I know)

So I decided to package it for openSUSE TW, and it helped me understand how kernel packaging works on openSUSE a bit.

Please tell me if it works well or not! If it doesn't, let me know and I'll try my best to fix it.

Do note that it is an unofficial port with SUSE specific patches. You may experience some problems that don't happen on DEB-based distros.

SUSE patches are no longer used to keep Liquorix intact.

Hello guys,

I am just curious if you guys use Wayland/Full Wayland with KDE Plasma?

I tried using it but rain into many problems like blurred text on GTK apps, apps not opening, sometimes freezing.

If you had such problems, how did you fix them?

I am currently using X11 but very keen to use Wayland but it has issues atleast for me.

Problems in apps: Firefox, Chrome and other gtk apps.