Leap 15.2 or 15.3? Which one should I pick for playing games using Litrus?

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Hey, guys!

As I mentioned in the title… which Leap version should I install if I’m gonna add Nvidia proprietary drivers for playing games using Lutris? These are some of my hardware specs:

  • Nvidia Geforce GTX 1050
  • 16 GB RAM DDR4
  • Ryzen 3 1300X CPU
  • HDD SATA3 200GB partition (Linux)
  • SSD M.2 256GB (Windows 10)

I found that in order to use Lutris I have to install, among others, DXVK… but, looking on the OpenSUSE package search, there’s no Leap 15.3 support for that package… only for 15.2. So, should I install the latter in order to play games?

Thanks in advance!

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Check on 15.3 - Lutris is there - 15.2 is at EOL so install 15.3

VM1:~ # zypper in lutris
Loading repository data...
Reading installed packages...
Resolving package dependencies...

The following 8 NEW packages are going to be installed:
  lutris python3-PyYAML python3-evdev typelib-1_0-AppIndicator3-0_1
  typelib-1_0-GnomeDesktop-3_0 typelib-1_0-JavaScriptCore-4_0
  typelib-1_0-Soup-2_4 typelib-1_0-WebKit2-4_0

8 new packages to install.
Overall download size: 2.5 MiB. Already cached: 0 B. After the operation,
additional 6.2 MiB will be used.
Continue? [y/n/v/...? shows all options] (y): n
VM1:~ #
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Thank you, Larry! I’ll install Leap 15.3… should I install it from scratch or is it possible and reliable doing an upgrade from Leap 15.2?
Tell me… what does EOL mean?

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When you have 15.2, you can continue using it for a while. See here https://en.opensuse.org/Lifetime.
So it is not EOL (End of life) already.

And yes, you can easily upgrade from 15.2 to 15.3 when you are ready for it. There is an on-line way to do it with the least fuzz

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Thanks to everybody! I’ve installed Leap 15.3 again from a USB pendrive! Now I have to find the better way to install the Nvidia propietary drivers in order to play games.

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When you are concentrated on games, then why didn’t you post your questions in the Games sub-forum here. That is where you fellow gamers are watching.