Tag: openSUSE
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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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Gmail Accounts with Kmail
I had stepped away from using Kmail as my mail client on Linux for almost a year. I moved to Thunderbird for a few months, tweaking a lot of the usability issues with it to make it work better for me. I can say that I almost have it the way I want it but…
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KRFB | Remote Desktop Sharing with Plasma Wayland
This is a kind of follow up to a previous article where I was experimenting with KRDP. Since I was unable to use that reliably, I had to find another solution and that solution has been found. Not as neat and clean as RDP is but rock solid and reliable like VNC has become. Installation…
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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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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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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…