Hardware
- Processor: AMD Ryzen 5 5600G with Radeon Graphics
- Memory: 27.3 GiB of RAM
- Graphics: AMD Radeon Graphics (integrated)
- Motherboard: Micro-Star MS-7C95
- Storage: 1Tb SSD, 8Tb SATA
Software
- Linux: openSUSE Tumbleweed 20250502
- Kernel: 6.14.4-1-default (64-bit)
- KDM Plasma: 6.3.4
- KDM Framework: 6.13.0
- Qt: 6.9.0
- Graphics: X11
The fun with sorting a desktop display setup is documented on the linked page, but here I'm logging just what I am using currently for reference.
- Plasma Theme - default openSUSE
- Application Style - qt6ct-style
- Windows Decoration - Plastik
- Icons - Papirus-Light
- Cursors - Breeze
- Colours - Breeze Light
- Text & Fonts - 16pt
Not so critical ... Splash Screen - openSUSE and Login Screen - Breeze
Support applications
(as of 04/05/2025)
Active Applications
| Application |
Display |
Notes |
Avidemux - 2.8.1
Avidemux is a free video editor designed for simple cutting, filtering and encoding tasks. |
System settings |
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Beyond Compare - 5.0.7
Beyond Compare handles a wide variety of comparison tasks. It has specialized views for different kinds of files and different approaches to reconciling differences. |
System settings |
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calibre - 7.26.0-x86_64
calibre is a powerful and easy to use e-book manager |
System settings |
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Eclipse IDE for PHP Developers - 2025-03 (4.35.0)
Eclipse development framework tools for PHP, including PHP language support, Git client and editors for JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML, CSS and XML. |
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A Tumbleweed updated caused eclipse to stop working although I suspect it is just the PDT extension that is actually having trouble, so I was forced to switch to VSCode |
Firefox - 138.0 (64-bit)
Web browser from Mozilla that works transparently across all devices. Tabs on mobile phone can be followed up on desktop. |
Windows bar is locked off, and the replacement right hand corner icons are then rather small.
Internal Theme - System theme - auto selected |
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FreeCAD - 1.0.0
A multiplatform, customizable and extensible software that allows you to design and modify 3D models with parametric features. |
System settings and application icons are matching side. |
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Gwenview - 24.12.3
Image management software that is a dafault on the KDE desktop. |
System settings |
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JOSM - 19342
JOSM is an extensible editor for OpenStreetMap |
System settings but applicationicons a little small |
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KiCAD - 9.0.0
KiCad is a free software suite for electronic design automation. It facilitates the design and simulation of electronic hardware for PCB manufacturing. |
System settings on containing windows, but application windows too small. |
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| Libreoffice |
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MakeMKV - v1.17.9
MakeMKV is your one-click solution to convert video that you own into free and patents-unencumbered format that can be played everywhere. |
System settings |
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Picard - 2.13.3
Picard is a cross-platform music tagger powered by the MusicBrainz database |
System settings |
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PDF Arranger - 1.11.1
Small python-gtk application, which helps the user to merge or split PDF documents and rotate, crop and rearrange their pages using an interactive and intuitive graphical interface. |
Windows bar is locked off, and the replacement top bar icons are then painfully small as are other icons. |
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qBittorrent - 5.0.4
The qBittorrent project aims to provide an open-source software alternative to µTorrent |
System settings |
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Thunderbird - 128.8.0esr (64-bit)
eMail client that used to be integrated with Netscape browser before that was forked to Firefox |
Windows bar is locked off, and the replacement right hand corner icons are then rather small.
Internal Theme - System theme - auto selected |
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Visual Studio Code (VSCode) 1.99.2
Visual Studio Code is a free code editor which can be extended to support different programming languages. DevsensePHP extension is being used to provide verification support for PHP8.4. |
Windows bar is defaulted off, but the replacement right hand corner icons are then painfully small. |
Having lost access to eclipse which I've been using for many years, I was a little loathed to switch especially since VSCode is linked to Microsoft but while I am still learning all the quirks that are second nature for eclipse it is actually working very well. |
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| | Hardware
- Processor: AMD Ryzen 5 5600G with Radeon Graphics
- Memory: 64 GiB of RAM (58.8 GiB usable)
- Graphics: Zotac GeForce GTX 1070 Mini ( AMD Radeon integrated Graphics not currently used )
- Motherboard: Micro-Star MS-7C95
- Storage: 1Tb SSD, 8Tb SATA
Software
- Linux: openSUSE Tumbleweed 20250929
- Kernel: 6.16.9-1-default (64-bit)
- Host Distribution documents just how the servers are built, and the only change for a desktop build is to select KDE rather than server as the base package build. The machine still needs a copy of the webstack along with the various programs listed below.
- KDM Plasma: 6.4.5
- KDM Framework: 6.18.0
- Qt: 6.9.2
- Graphics: X11
Web Services Stack
nginx - nginx/1.29.1
nginx - nginx ("engine x") is an HTTP web server, reverse proxy, content cache, load balancer, TCP/UDP proxy server, and mail proxy server. |
PHP - 8.4.13 (Sep 26 2025 06:27:17)
PHP - "A popular general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited to web development. Fast, flexible and pragmatic, PHP powers everything from your blog to the most popular websites in the world."
Heart of the web services stack. |
Firebird - LI-V5.0.3.1693
Firebird - Extremely robust open source database which I have been using since it's Interbase days. |
Plex Media Server - 1.42.2.10156
Plex - Plex Media Server magically scans and organizes your files, sorting your media intuitively and beautifully - Some of the time - Needs a lot more work to manage classical music better. |
Of the three components, only the first two are actually part of the Tumbleweed repositories. Need to update Firebird manually, and 5.0.3 is available.
The fun with sorting a desktop display setup is documented on the linked page, but here I'm logging just what I am using currently for reference.
- Plasma Theme - default openSUSE
- Application Style - Fusion ... for it's scroll bar
- Windows Decoration - Plastik ... for it's clean windows header bar
- Icons - Breeze
- Cursors - Breeze Light (54pixel) ... for it's text cursor visibility
- Colours - openSUSE with a yellow accent
- Text & Fonts - 16pt with 192DPI
Not so critical ... Splash Screen - openSUSE and Login Screen - Breeze
Support applications
See Application catalogue for more details
(as of 30/09/2025)
Avidemux - 2.8.1
Avidemux is a free video editor designed for simple cutting, filtering and encoding tasks. |
Beyond Compare - 5.1.5 (build 31310) Pro Edition
Beyond Compare handles a wide variety of comparison tasks. It has specialized views for different kinds of files and different approaches to reconciling differences. |
calibre - 8.12.0-x86_64
calibre is a powerful and easy to use e-book manager |
Dolphin 25.08.1
Default file manager on the KDE desktop with add-ons for additional file processes. |
Firefox - 143.0.1 (64-bit)
Web browser from Mozilla that works transparently across all devices. Tabs on mobile phone can be followed up on desktop. |
FreeCAD - 1.0.2
A multiplatform, customizable and extensible software that allows you to design and modify 3D models with parametric features. |
Gwenview - 25.08.0
Image management software that is a default on the KDE desktop. |
ImageMagick - 7.1.2.1-1.1.x86_64
ImageMagick is a free, open-source software suite, used for editing and manipulating digital images. It can be used to create, edit, compose, or convert bitmap images, and supports a wide range of file formats, including JPEG, PNG, GIF, TIFF, and Ultra HDR. |
JOSM - 19439
JOSM is an extensible editor for OpenStreetMap |
KiCAD - 9.0.4
KiCad is a free software suite for electronic design automation. It facilitates the design and simulation of electronic hardware for PCB manufacturing.
wxWidgets 3.2.8, FreeType 2.13.3, HarfBuzz 11.2.1, FontConfig 2.16.0
libcurl/8.15.0 OpenSSL/3.5.2 zlib/1.3.1 brotli/1.1.0 zstd/1.5.7 libidn2/2.3.8 libpsl/0.21.5 libssh/0.11.2/openssl/zlib nghttp2/1.66.0 OpenLDAP/2.6.10
Boost: 1.88.0, OCC: 7.8.1, Curl: 8.14.0, ngspice: 43 |
LibreOffice - 25.8.1.1 (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
LibreOffice is open source alternative to Microsoft Office and in many cases handles even older Office documents cleaner than Office does itself. |
MakeMKV - v1.18.2
MakeMKV is your one-click solution to convert video that you own into free and patents-unencumbered format that can be played everywhere. |
Picard - 2.13.3
Picard is a cross-platform music tagger powered by the MusicBrainz database |
PDF Arranger - 1.11.1
Small python-gtk application, which helps the user to merge or split PDF documents and rotate, crop and rearrange their pages using an interactive and intuitive graphical interface. |
qBittorrent - 5.1.2 (Boost library problem since Tumbleweek killed V1_88 and installed 1_89)
The qBittorrent project aims to provide an open-source software alternative to µTorrent |
Thunderbird - 140.3.0esr (64-bit)
eMail client that used to be integrated with Netscape browser before that was forked to Firefox |
Visual Studio Code (VSCode) 1.104.2
Visual Studio Code is a free code editor which can be extended to support different programming languages. DevsensePHP extension is being used to provide verification support for PHP8.4.
Electron: 37.2.3, ElectronBuildId: 12035395, Chromium: 138.0.7204.210, Node.js: 22.17.0, V8: 13.8.500258-electron.0 |
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