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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.
Let me know if you have any questions!
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.
How is Wayland better on GNOME? You mean stable, more features? I just moved to KDE to get VRR & HDR.
More stable. As in, it works pretty much as I expect vs the X11 version, whereas KDE on Wayland crashes for me (or is just glitchy).
If it works, great, but it was pretty much unusable for me so I switched to GNOME for VRR and whatnot.
GNOME now supports VRR? Damn, you're tempting me to go back. I love GNOME's UX/UI and it's gazillion of libadwaita apps.
It has for ages, even on X11 IIRC. I happen to have two monitors, one with VRR and the other without, and I needed Wayland to get that to work properly.
This is on AMD, YMMV with NVIDIA.
Is vsync still being forced?
Idk, I don't play competitive games, and I don't particularly value high FPS gaming (my monitor only goes to 95hz, which is plenty for the games I play).
I have seen that KDE supposedly allows turning it off now, so it's possible GNOME also does since GNOME seems to generally have better Wayland support. But I'm really not sure, I just generally leave vsync on in games.
Thank you very much! All you guys!
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 :)