after a few months back on Windows 11 (mostly because of my CPU) i want to migrate again to Linux.
With my old setup i used Linux Mint, but i know that some packages are really old and i needed to tinker a lot of things.
I liked it a lot but im just thinking about to try out OpenSuse Tumbleweed. Because of a lot of things - KDE, Wayland etc.
Do you have any experience with Tumbleweed and Gaming and is there maybe a recent recommendation how-to to set this up?
What would be also great is Secure Boot - i read a few things that it is possible with OpenSuse Tumbleweed but do you guys have experience with it? I'm also open for other OS recommandations :)
My CPU is a R9 7950X3D and my GPU is a Radeon RX 6950 XT
And i have a AIO with a LCD Display (NZXT Kraken 280 RGB).
Secure Boot is definitely possible with oS TW. You can select to enable it on install.
With AMD you will be using the open-source drivers for gaming which means openSUSE will give you the benefit of the latest and greatest drivers for best performance.
Honestly just install it with your DE of choice and install Steam. Even for non-Steam games I find that loading them through Steam to use Proton is typically better than setting up Wine independently.
I have been using TW (and its predecessors) for around 17 years and have no major complaints at all! KDE Plasma is my preferred desktop and TW comes with that option as a default. Wayland is available but still has a few niggles with KDE Plasma in my experience.
TW will play both indie and mainstream games with no problem and comes with many repos of up-to-date packages. CoolerControl is a good app for setting up your Kraken if necessary. Your GPU should work out-of-the-box.
TW supports Secure Boot and should detect it when setting up. My advice for installation is to create a bootable USB stick with the network install version of TW and go from there. The GUI allows you to select a default installation or set things up just how you like them.
I've been on TW for 3-4 years now (something like my 4th distro? Been on Linux for 15-ish years), and it's great. I used KDE for the first 2-3 years until I replaced my NVIDIA card with an AMD card, and now I'm on GNOME because it has much better Wayland support.
I have no complaints about TW whatsoever. My main complaint is that openSUSE seems adamant about eliminating Leap, so I'll have to figure out MicroOS sometime in the next year or so to migrate my servers. But that has nothing to do with TW or gaming, so it should be irrelevant for OP.
I tried the network installer but it keeps failing (i think because of maintenance --> https://status.opensuse.org/#scheduled-36 )
First of all, i do like the first few hours on TW (installed it on my notebook because cant boot my main machine right now and so i can try to tinker a bit with it).
And yes i do have a few question :)
But first of all i need to know if there is an app which can create WebApps like the WebApp application from mint. I know that i can create such things with chrome but is there an extra app for that available for TW?
I searched the web but didn't find a good solution.
The other things i want to try out first before asking, but i'm realy shure, that there will be a few other things i need to ask :)
Install proton-up flatpak, install steam,lutris/heroic, whatever you want to use for the other stores. That has worked for me on any distro.
Try open-RGB for RGB control.
Your hardware isn't bleeding edge, so older packages aren't really that much of an issue unless you suffer from FOMO or just have to have that 1.1.2 feature, which case I found Flatpak delivers a fair amount of up-to-date apps.
I like OpenSuse TW. It's up to date, and I've not had many issues with gaming. I did have an issue with a dodgy texture in No Man's Sky, but it runs stuff like Valheim (Steam), Project Zomboid (Steam), Minecraft, Rimworld (Lutris) good for me. I don't really do any AAA, so cannot really comment on those.
I used to have problems with audio crackling. I'd restart pulseaudio, and it would resolve. I haven't had that problem for a long time now though. I think it's been resolved.