Category: Tumbleweed
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Nearly Seamless Integration | openSUSE in a Microsoft Office 365 Environment
Almost a year ago, I took a position as an IT Manager in a Microsoft Office 365 environment. I made great effort to take on the incredible task of learning this job by immersing myself in all things Microsoft: Windows 11, Outlook, Teams, Office, and so forth. I did start to bring in a crutch…
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Framework 13 | Best Laptop Yet
The Framework 13 is the best laptop I have used to date. This is my my main computer I use for the last nine months, day in and day out at home, the office and traveling domestically as well as internationally. It runs openSUSE Tumbleweed perfectly which makes my digital living on this machine as…
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No Sound Output Troubleshooting in openSUSE Linux
I suddenly had a sound issue on my openSUSE machine. There were no sound output devices available to the system to play anything. My laptop was mute. I had never seen this. EVERYTHING was gone. Rebooting didn’t fix it, rolling back to a previous snapshot didn’t fix it, I had no idea what I had…
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KDE Plasma 6 on openSUSE Tumbleweed
In the wide, wide world of desktop Linux, there is a lot of buzz and excitement over the release of Plasma 6 and for good reason, it is a fantastic upgrade from 5.27. The world of Plasma isn’t perfect but when put into perspective, this is getting real close. I was rather concerned about this…
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CrossOver Linux 23.7 on openSUSE Tumbleweed
I don’t run Windows applications all that often as of late but I needed to add a thing and discovered that Crossover was not installed on my system. I was a bit surprised by this as I do recall recently struggling with getting something to run in Linux recently. I downloaded the latest Crossover Linux…
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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…