tumbleweed-cli VS Bumblebee

There is a third controversial option: tumbleweed-cli which is helping to move from snapshot to snapshot. To be honest I'm not aware of the status.

Would this work? https://github.com/boombatower/tumbleweed-cli

There is also https://github.com/boombatower/tumbleweed-cli which i like very much when using tumbleweed

If the persistent updates or update notifications are the only problem for a switch to TW, then there's always the installable package 'tumbleweed-cli' (you can find it in the repos) more infos. https://github.com/boombatower/tumbleweed-cli With this you can set a specific opensuse snapshot. This should only be used for updates, not for rollbacks, that's what snapper is for. As far as I know monthly updating is recommended (at least).

A certain number of older snapshots is kept on the mirrors and can be chosen with tumbleweed-cli.

Jesus. It's not that zypper isn't a good tool, it's that tumbleweed-cli uses the snapshot versions, and is actually designed for this exact use case. See this thread and the comment by u/bommbatower for more information.

I use tumbleweed-cli to upgrade from a solid snapshot to the next one, typically once every two weeks or so. This allows rolling as quickly or slowly as is desired, provided the snapshots are still available here: http://download.opensuse.org/history/

I'd suggest you to install tumbleweed-cli (zypper in tumbleweed-cli) to target a specific snapshot, so you're not going to upgrade your system all the time, but only when a new snapshot is released (and when you want to switch to it, at your discretion).

I do believe you're right! My mistake. That's good to know. It looks like it's just the scoring system that's done by a third party - unless I'm wrong again :) Please let me know if I am. I'm still hesitant to use it with respect to the scoring system as an ordinary user. I was under the misconception that the github repo at https://github.com/boombatower/tumbleweed-cli would have been under the official opensuse github repo.

Have you tried Bumblebee? That and this page was helpful for me. I don't remember if Bumblebee ever worked for me, but a lot of people have success with it.

Ok, I figured out what was wrong: apparently my computer uses Nvidia Optimus which uses my Intel GPU to save power. And so I have to tell it to uses Nvidia through Bumblebee which I haven't figured out completely yet.

If I remember right, the Bumblebee project is open source for hybrid Intel/nVidia laptop GPUs. The open source drivers never gave me the problems that the proprietary nVidia drivers had. https://www.bumblebee-project.org/

This are magical parameters for me, i.e. I have 0 idea what it does in fact. I know however that this solves acpi problems with modern-ish optimus laptops: https://github.com/Bumblebee-Project/Bumblebee/issues/764

How does Bumblebee work with sway?

The Bumblebee wiki then says that you can run games by first exporting DISPLAY=:8 and then running them with primusrun or optirun as normal: https://github.com/Bumblebee-Project/Bumblebee/wiki/Multi-monitor-setup

Ah yeah, I have similar feelings.

BumbleBee was promising at one time:

https://github.com/Bumblebee-Project/Bumblebee/wiki/FAQ

But seems kind of dead now.

https://www.bumblebee-project.org/