My neon light bulb just disappeared

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Continuing the discussion from New splash screen appeared on Tumbleweed:

This is the closest disscussion I can find to this…

As you can see I am very new to Tumbleweed and I’ve been messing with a lot of settings before finally deciding this is the distro that checks all the boxes for me, and ends a 20 year search. But that’s for another post in open chat.

My neon light bulb not longer appears. It is only taking 10 seconds to boot, so a few seconds looking at the cool splash would not bother me.

Thanks in advance

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@distro-nix Hi, that is all the plymouth stuff, so did that get uninstalled? But instead of the current 10 seconds, likely to see a longer boot time… :wink:

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Does that help ?
Linux ostw 6.10.5-1-default #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Fri Aug 16 11:15:41 UTC 2024 (30fd964) x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

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@distro-nix What does zypper se -i libply ply show?

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i  | plymouth-branding-openSUSE | openSUSE Tumbleweed branding for Plymouth bootsplash | package
i  | plymouth-dracut            | Plymouth related utilities for dracut                | package
i  | plymouth-lang              | Translations for package plymouth                    | package
i  | plymouth-plugin-label      | Plymouth label plugin                                | package
i  | plymouth-plugin-two-step   | Plymouth "two-step" plugin                           | package
i  | plymouth-scripts           | Plymouth related scripts                             | package
i  | plymouth-theme-bgrt        | Plymouth "bgrt" theme                                | package
i  | plymouth-theme-spinner     | Plymouth "Spinner" theme                             | package
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Did you check under systemsettings- colors&design - start screen.
Might be a little bit differently named (I use a German locale)
I do not have plymouth installed and still can see the lightbulb when Plasma starts.

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It’s not listed in YaST like that. Also I have Gnome, so maybe its different for me.

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@distro-nix So my setup here, is no grub menu, no plymouth and auto login to the desktop…

Perhaps clarify where, is this before grub, after grub but before login, or after login and transitioning to the desktop.

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Thanks for your efforts @malcolmlewis Maybe I’m overthinking this.
It’s starting to look like Leap may be more suited. I will do some more research. I’m definitely going with something from openSUSE.

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@distro-nix you should try Aeon then… https://aeondesktop.github.io/ I’m using it on a Beelink device, no secure boot just TPM2, FDE etc

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Why no secure boot? I have an old i7 Asus Pro but i know it supports secure boot.
I also see Aeon is still in RC. How is it doing for you?
Being Atomic does that mean its an immutable core like Silverblue?

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@distro-nix It’s not needed, just use TPM2 and no paraphrase needed at boot. It works with secure boot, well any computer at present… just need to enter the paraphrase. If your going to switch I would recommend a try out.

Yes, it’s immutable :wink:

More like RC4/Release candidate at present.

It runs fine on my setup(s).

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I left Silverblue because it had all these directory permission issues when trying to install gspell and its dependencies to use my beloved Evolution.

This is an issue with flatpak and flathub versions and it’s not been fixed. The whole idea of containerization is to sandbox your applications, but that quite how it works out in the real world.
My next option is to layer Evolution and its spellcheck dependencies on the rpm-Ostree. Now way, it would break on every update.
Third option, is to run Evolution from the terminal in a toolbox (which is what I started doing for a few days) but its a hard way to do what should be easy.

Tumbleweed gives no such issues. At this point, I think Tumbleweed with the right recovery strategies should be all I need. Thanks for your advice. I may do a spare system on Aeon MicroOS.

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@distro-nix happy to work on the evolution issue. Consider joining the Aeon matrix channel, or file a bug report if something isn’t working…

If it needs to be installed at a host level, easy enough to add to the patterns.

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Not really too much to ask for :smile:

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@distro-nix Not sure what the issue is, enchant/hunspell not suitable? Spell checking works on Aeon with org.gnome.Evolution flatpak…

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I decided to stay with TW with a bunch of distarer recovery tools, Timeshift in rsync of the root; snapper of course and Clonezilla once a week.

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