Category: openSUSE
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Prospect Mail | Best Microsoft Outlook Experience on openSUSE
I think it’s terrible when “best” is ever used in a title, but I have to say that this is absolutely true, at least, calling it the best experience for me. I’ve not really been a huge fan of Outlook due to some of its quirky behavior and the technical support that I have had…
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openSUSE Tumbleweed Endures 18 Month Update Gap
I am continually impressed by the tolerance that openSUSE Tumbleweed has to delays between updates. The recommendation is weekly, maybe bi-weekly to keep your system up to day. It is NOT a good idea to go much more than a month but I have been sloppy from time to time. The great thing about Tumbleweed…
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Electron Apps Blank on openSUSE Tumbleweed
One of the joys of rolling distributions is that every once in a while, you get a weird issue that pops up. I recognize that this is a possibility and a rare one that the fantastic openSUSE community does end up fixing. I figure, if I have to find the solution, than I may as…
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Wayland Display Server on openSUSE Tumbleweed in 2023
It is official, 2023 is the year of the Wayland display server. It has become very obvious that there is quite a bit of momentum behind the Wayland Display Server project and as of today, in October of 2023, Wayland is the best experience you are going to have with the Plasma desktop, especially if…
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DisplayLink on openSUSE Tumbleweed
My journey with DisplayLink started in 2012 with a USB 2 interface on a Dell Latitude D630. It was rough and quite fiddly to get working. When you did, it was slow but usable. I really wanted that third monitor and worked quite hard to make it happen. Thanks to the openSUSE community I was…
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Persistent Pipewire Problems Pause Productivity
I was having some issues in openSUSE Tumbleweed where my audio devices would continue to be listed after being disconnected. My audio applet in KDE Plasma was looking like an incredible mess and it was making conducting remote meetings problematic. Microsoft Teams is already an audio mess on any operating system, the Linux desktop shouldn’t…
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Linux Saloon | GeckoLinux Distro Exploration
Our first distro exploration for 2023 was GeckoLinux, a series of spins of openSUSE that makes an easy on-ramp to get into openSUSE with the desktop of your choice. You have the option of going with the static core of openSUSE Leap or the rolling Tumbleweed with these desktops: There is also an option to…
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Building a New Retro Styled Computer
Computers are a lot more fun when they are personal and have a bit of personaltity to them. You can’t get much more personalized than 3D printing your very own retro styled computer. This was all inspired by watching an episode on the YouTube channel, Retro Recipes, where LadyFractic built herself a retro computer, my…
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SteamDeck | What Makes it Awesome for an openSUSE User
When it comes to my tech, I am reluctant to add anything that has the potential to become a technical liability that I cannot accommodate. I am also not interested in any tech that locks me into a cloud based ecosystem where my future with the technology is at the whims of some faceless corporation.…
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Lingot | Musical Instrument Tuner on openSUSE
I like to dabble around in playing instruments, I am, by no means, a musician but doing a little noodling around from time to time can be quite gratifying. In my younger years, I did enjoy playing more than one instrument, today, I am taking on some new challenges, nothing crazy, I just happen to…