The factory repo came preinstalled on both my tumbleweed machines and I am concerned that it may interfere with driver updates as as new kde 6 updates (when those are ready) since it is gone because on my other machine i noticed updates for the network card from factory.
here is a snapshot from my other machine
Repository priorities in effect: (See 'zypper lr -P' for details)
90 (raised priority) : 1 repository
99 (default priority) : 5 repositories
# | Alias | Name | Enabled | GPG Check | Refresh | URI
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1 | https-download.opensuse.org-b44f06ae | openSUSE:Factory | Yes | (r ) Yes | Yes | https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/
2 | packman | Packman | Yes | (r ) Yes | Yes | https://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/misc/packman/suse/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/
3 | repo-debug | openSUSE-Tumbleweed-Debug | No | ---- | ---- | http://download.opensuse.org/debug/tumbleweed/repo/oss/
4 | repo-non-oss | openSUSE-Tumbleweed-Non-Oss | Yes | (r ) Yes | Yes | http://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/non-oss/
5 | repo-openh264 | Open H.264 Codec (openSUSE Tumbleweed) | Yes | (r ) Yes | Yes | http://codecs.opensuse.org/openh264/openSUSE_Tumbleweed
6 | repo-oss | openSUSE-Tumbleweed-Oss | Yes | (r ) Yes | Yes | http://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/
7 | repo-source | openSUSE-Tumbleweed-Source | No | ---- | ---- | http://download.opensuse.org/source/tumbleweed/repo/oss/
8 | repo-update | openSUSE-Tumbleweed-Update | Yes | (r ) Yes | Yes | http://download.opensuse.org/update/tumbleweed/
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