{"id":520,"date":"2022-01-05T16:49:01","date_gmt":"2022-01-05T16:49:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amasan.co.uk\/vandragt\/?p=520"},"modified":"2022-01-05T16:51:30","modified_gmt":"2022-01-05T16:51:30","slug":"opensuse-tumbleweed-installation-notes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2022.vandragt.com\/technology\/opensuse-tumbleweed-installation-notes\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenSUSE Tumbleweed Installation Notes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>For future reference here are some issues I&#8217;ve come across installing and setting up Tumbleweed on my workstation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The reason for switching from macOS is that a commercial operating system focused on services builts in too many distractions for me. Also long term the Apple hardware is priced above what I&#8217;m prepared to pay, so it makes sense for me to look for an alternative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tumbleweed is a rolling distribution which makes for a long term maintained setup, and packages are tested thoroughly but are quickly updated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So far these are just little niggles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Day one issues<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The old Grub menu from my previous Linux installation wasn&#8217;t wiped, I simply reinstalled making sure all existing partitions were deleted before partitioning.<\/li><li><em>avahi is not allowed to start itself due to security policies<\/em>. This was because dbus needed to restart after avahi installed configuration into it. I could have rebooted.<\/li><li>My Apple Magic Keyboard must be selected in KDE after the installation as it&#8217;s not an option during the installation routine.<\/li><li>Opening ports for OpenSSH means that they&#8217;re open on the <em>public<\/em> zone. I didn&#8217;t realise this as I want to use the <em>home<\/em> zone as default.Yast Firewall sorted this out.<\/li><li>After installing Lutris, Steam and Proton Experimental, certain games would not start, due to missing vulkan drivers. <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/lutris\/docs\/blob\/master\/InstallingDrivers.md\">This Lutris Wiki link<\/a> describes the issue, I had to search Yast Software for <code>vulkan<\/code> showed I had to install <code>libvulkan_intel<\/code> and <code>libvulkan_intel-32bit<\/code>. <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Interesting links<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>There&#8217;s a nice tiling window manager script for KDE called <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/esjeon\/krohnkite\">Krohnkite<\/a>. Meta-D conflicted with show desktop, after reassigning the latter I still think that shortcut doesn&#8217;t do anything, though.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>So far so good. The interface is more snappy than macOS and more powerful, and the system is working nicely.<\/p>\n<div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For future reference here are some issues I&#8217;ve come across installing and setting up Tumbleweed on my workstation. The reason for switching from macOS is that a commercial operating system focused on services builts in too many distractions for me. Also long term the Apple hardware is priced above what I&#8217;m prepared to pay, so [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"mf2_syndication":[],"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[43,44],"class_list":["post-520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-kde","tag-opensuse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amasan.co.uk\/vandragt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amasan.co.uk\/vandragt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amasan.co.uk\/vandragt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amasan.co.uk\/vandragt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amasan.co.uk\/vandragt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=520"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/amasan.co.uk\/vandragt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":530,"href":"https:\/\/amasan.co.uk\/vandragt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520\/revisions\/530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amasan.co.uk\/vandragt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amasan.co.uk\/vandragt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amasan.co.uk\/vandragt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}