I’m new to opensuse and the times I search on how to it’s all for Ubunutu and not opensuse.
I do not on Tumbleweed, but as I understand it by reading topics here, it is installed by default and can be used by KDE Plasma and Gnome (or is even default).
I have a Leap 15.6 here and use KDE Plasma. On the login screen I can choose between Plasma (X11) and Plasma (Wayland), (and more). I do not understand why you can’t.
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You can select your Desktop Environment during install.
The desktop Environment are the main way how you interact with your system in a graphical way (think about the layout of Windows for example vs the layout of MacOS), the desktop environment is the “layout”.
You have three main flavors of Desktop Environment (DE’s) in Linux, KDE and XFCE, which are very Windows-like and Gnome, which is quite different from Windows or MacOS.
Both KDE and GNOME are installing Wayland by default and you will be able to select it when logging in. In GNOME Wayland is set as default, in KDE I am not sure (at least not on Tumbleweed, on Leap X11 is still selected as default). XFCE does not install Wayland, because it relies mainly on X11, but it is starting it’s transitioning phase, but it’ll only probably be fully available in 5-10 years from now on. So I would advise you to go with KDE or GNOME.
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I don’t seem to have the option, the only other options are a virtual keyboard, my log-in credentials, and battery. I don’t have the log in screen at boot however.\
I’m daring to add:
The selection button of your graphical interface is often on the bottom left (or right, I am not sure) of the login screen.
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Did you install KDE or GNOME? What DE did you choose?
I see based on your last post, that you installed KDE, can you maybe post a picture of your login screen?
Did you maybe select auto-login during install? You can log out by pressing the Windows/Super-Key, clicking the arrow next to the shutdown button and logging out manually (as you do on Windows for example).
When you choose for “automatic login” for a user, then the login screen is skipped after boot. And indeed, nobody will see it.
The user can of course log out and then the screen will be shown for a next login.
I actually instructed it to always open with the log in screen. I think it may have to do that I’m dual booting it with Windows 11 but asides from disabling bit-lock and creating the partitions, I changed nothing during my install.
Here’s what it looks like:
Try to click on switch user and check if there is an option in the bottom right. You have to logout and not lock your screen, unless it won’t show.
No.
Your picture does not show all of the screen. What is at the lower-left? I get the same login screen and there is text lower-left.
I tried it and it made me go to another log in screen but if I tried to input either my root or normal passwaord it won’t let me, I was able to log in when I used the other user log in. Even with all of that when I got into Wayland the screen is blank.
I tried it again, and its still the same. I’m running a dual monitor setup with my laptop but the screen is half broken so I made my monitor the primary. Could it be one of the issues?
You tried what? Please we can not look over your shoulder. You should explain every step you take!
I see unreadable text lower-left in your last picture. There should be a desktop chooser at the right of that text (at the left there is something about virtual keyboard.
Is it there or not?
When it is there, what show if you click on it?
You should NEVER log in as root .
Sorry I think I deleted “again”. I tried going back into wayland but it was blank and nothing appeared in both my screens.
In the image of the monitor with logon displayed there is some text on the lower left of the screen, try clicking on that text. For me a menu pops up on the screen in that position offering the choice of DE including x11 or Wayland variants of each DE that is changeable.
Hello and welcome to the openSUSE forums.
Your advice is OK, but it is already explained in post #13 and hinted at in post #2.
Sorry for my unnecessary reply.
Should I just reinstall Opensuse all over again? Is there a guide you guys can show how to install it alongside Windows 11? My biggest gripe with right now with all KDE distros is that everytime I try and install a theme it gives me this error " fail to load providers.xml file"
No problem, in any case it confirms what I see 
I hope you still feel welcome here.
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Installing multi-boot alongside another operating system, even with a Microsoft Windows one is done many,many times. And you did it already. So what is the problem?
In any case, as soon as your openSUSE is running, the presence of this multi-boot has nothing to do with any problems in KDE.
So why re-install? That will not help anything.
Then that is where your problem is. NOT with multi-boot.
And when you have this on all distros where you try KDE, then it probably is just you and not the distro that is to blame.
When you want help with this, you should explain step by step what you did. I repeat: We can not look over your shoulder, we depend complete on your description (or better copy/paste).
Just repeating “I try …” does not help.