I tested both and ended up with EndeavourOS because SuSE have some restrictions and issues with codecs and the Packman repository that can get a bit iffy… e.g. recently different versions of mesa on suse vs. packman messed up some applications, though it got fixed.
Also for some reason SuSE didn’t support my vol up/down keys, etc. I didn’t investigate.
So I grabbed EndeavourOS, choose [NVidia] proprietary drivers mode when booting the installer (the install will then automatically also install NV proprietary drivers). I picked the BTRFS filesystem with Grub (for snapshot support) at install and simply later ran “yay -S snapper-support btrfs-assistant” to get automatic snapshot support.
I do have Optimus disabled though, I run the Nvidia in Dedicated mode so I can’t say how well Optimus works.
Just wanted to pitch in my experience and say my volume up/down keys on my keyboard worked out of the box, so it’s not a universal issue, and still worth giving OpenSUSE a try.
I do use NVidia with OpenSUSE, but I don’t use Optimus, so I can’t be of much help.
One piece of advice I want to throw in here: Use a proper file system! exFAT or F2FS are flash-aware and will ensure that you dom’t kill your drive by frequent writes to the same memory cells!
Maybe you are thinking of Subliminal which works by calling GuessIt to identify the video and then tries to find and download subtitles from various sources. There are plugins to use it automatically from mpv and probably other players too.
Edit: looks like most of the providers are broken so this doesn’t work very well anymore.
I’ve always used Xubuntu. It’s reasonably lightweight and the Ubuntu USB creator does the heavy lifting for creating persistence. The only downside is you have to have a running instance an Ubuntu flavor (bare metal, VM or USB) to use the tool.
Android was not mentioned by either Arm or Collobora, so I’d assume Arm will still focus their resources and provide closed-source Mali GPU drivers for Android, while expanding their support for Panfrost on Linux.
android emulators can ship their own userland drivers, this is how a lot of android emulators ship turnip drivers which boast expanded vulkan feature support and sometimes better performance. and considering the open source nature, i can easily see someone porting it for rom usage especially considering how much of a meme mali drivers are on android and emulation community
I’ve used kubuntu and neon in the past. The issue I ran into was kubuntu not having the latest KDE software, and it wasn’t available in back ports. I tried switching to neon but it’s based on the LTS version of Ubuntu so the kernel was pretty old, it didn’t have great support for my hardware.
I switched to tumbleweed and have been loving it since.
I was using it on my older Asus and ran into wifi issues. I actually replaced the laptop before switching to tumbleweed. I’m running it on 3 computers so far, a Dell G15, custom built desktop, and a framework laptop.
I’m really liking it, it’s a rolling release so it always has the news versions of everything, it’s been really stable but also has a built in rollback feature in case there’s a bad update
Thank you for sharing this! Yesterday I was searching online for Tumbleweed user experiences on Thinkpad, but I only found info about older Thinkpad models. I’ll try it from a live disk. I might also switch to Framework later on…
Give it a shot! I did try running it on a live disk last week, the performance was really terrible (couldn’t even move the mouse), don’t give up on it immediately if that happens to you
How long ago was it? Latest LTS is 22.04, don’t think just one year would make cause any major compatibility issue (but well, if it did, just one year for 24.04LTS).
This was a few years back, maybe on 20.04 but could have been 18.04. The wifi card was a niche realtek that wasn’t well supported.
The issue is more that neon and kubuntu both have trade-offs, using either means you will be using older software releases. Doesn’t mean it will affect everyone, but for some people a rolling distro will be better.
Imo Kde neon serves as a test bench for whoever want to try the latest KDE DE directly from the kde team, it is not maint for daily driver use though I tried it for a while and it was pretty reliable.
Kubuntu is an ubuntu with kde that is maint to be used for daily driver usage.
FWIW neither KDE nor gnome are Window Managers (WM), they are Desktop Environments (DE). WMs are significantly different from DEs in terms of what they provide and how they are constructed. WMs are more of a builder’s kit and less of something you just install and use. If you like doing things in a specific, unique manner you might enjoy WMs. Be advised they are, almost always, much more detailed in terms of their installation.
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