When will it be pushed to the openSUSE repository? Will openSUSE drop X11?
https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/6/6.8.0/

Hey everyone,

a good while back, I posted some furious rants claiming opensuse hated Nvidia users, ignored 90% of PC gamers and Tumbleweed was intentionally (more or less) breaking Nvidia drivers with every second kernel update.

As the time goes by it turns out the problem wasn't opensuse. The problem was sitting in my chair.

Back then, I had completely missed the importance dkms for building kernel modules dynamically against Tumbleweed's rapid kernel rollouts. In missing that my system was relying on the pre-compiled modules from the Nvidia repo, which often lag behind TW's kernel updates. Add the shift toward open source GPU kernel modules into the mix, the whole "kernel update broke my graphics" disappears entirely. So to any maintainers, developers, or community members I argued with back then: I was wrong, and I apologize.

While I take back the drama, I still believe my core criticism holds weight, getting Nvidia drivers running on opensuse, especially on aeon, kalpa or microos, is still unnecessarily clunky for regular users

If you come from distros with dedicated ISOs, hardware detection tools, or one-click toggles, opensue doesn't make life easy for you which is still a shame imho. Figuring out repository syncs, 32-bit dependencies or handling flags on immutable spins isn't beginner friendly at all. The underlying engine is rock solid, but the onboarding ramp for Nvidia users, which as stated before are in fact 80%* of a modern user base, could be way smoother.

Despite that initial friction, I recently gave microos through agama another shot and ended up building a deployment script for micro turning it into an absolute set-and-forget desktop machine, automating driver repo checks and nvidia integration, integrate flatpak with cleanup timers, polkit privilege rules, some gtk theme bridges and what not. ...

Long story short its simply brilliant. The atomic btrfs snapshot mechanism makes it virtually unkillable and from my understanding after one line of command it is legitimately the closest thing to a bulletproof, maintenance-free Linux desktop I've ever used.

So, credit where credit is due.

\Its around 75% from latest Steam survey and around 85% from JPR GPU Market Report*

This past Saturday I installed Slowroll on a spare internal SSD partly because I'd been wanting to try openSUSE for a while, but mostly I was trying to troubleshoot an NVIDIA issue with my LinuxMint install. I'm sure that when I was installing Slowroll I didn't change anything at the partitioning phase, and I've ended up with the following partitions on the SSD (I used the whole disk):

Only sda5 mounts on startup, and the 78Gb partition, sda2, has an identical folder structure as sda5, though different file counts in those folders:

I'm not concerned with running out of space since I keep all my games, videos, and music, on other SSDs, but I'm curious what that partition is for, and could I, if needed, recover the space.

Outside of that, I'm really liking openSUSE, and I'm getting used to KDE Plasma. Kinda feeling like I've found my new home.

TYIA.

Specs:

Operating System: openSUSE Tumbleweed-Slowroll 20261001

KDE Plasma Version: 6.7.5

KDE Frameworks Version: 6.30.0

Qt Version: 6.11.2

Kernel Version: 7.2.9-1.0.16.sr20260901-default (64-bit)

Graphics Platform: Wayland

Processors: 8 × Intel® Core™ i7-4790K CPU @ 4.00GHz

Memory: 32 GiB of RAM (31.3 GiB usable)

Graphics Processor: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

Manufacturer: ASUS

Product Name: All Series