Running Tumbleweed on HP Laptop 15-da0xxx

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Installed Tumbleweed 20181029 on budget hardware:

notebook:~ # inxi -zF
System:    Host: notebook.fritz.box Kernel: 4.19.1-1.g91bc4a9-default x86_64 bits: 64 Console: tty 0 
           Distro: openSUSE Tumbleweed 20181029 
Machine:   Type: Laptop System: HP product: HP Laptop 15-da0xxx v: Type1ProductConfigId serial: <filter> 
           Mobo: HP model: 84A6 v: 80.24 serial: <filter> UEFI: Insyde v: F.02 date: 05/24/2018 
Battery:   ID-1: BAT1 charge: 15.0 Wh condition: 40.1/41.9 Wh (96%) 
CPU:       Topology: Quad Core model: Intel Core i5-8250U bits: 64 type: MT MCP L2 cache: 6144 KiB 
           Speed: 800 MHz min/max: 400/3400 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 792 2: 800 3: 796 4: 794 5: 794 6: 800 7: 789 8: 796 
Graphics:  Device-1: Intel UHD Graphics 620 driver: i915 v: kernel 
           Display: server: X.org 1.20.2 driver: modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa resolution: <xdpyinfo missing> 
           OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel UHD Graphics 620 (Kabylake GT2) v: 4.5 Mesa 18.1.7 
Audio:     Device-1: Intel Sunrise Point-LP HD Audio driver: snd_hda_intel 
           Sound Server: ALSA v: k4.19.1-1.g91bc4a9-default 
Network:   Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet driver: r8169 
           IF: eno1 state: down mac: <filter> 
           Device-2: Realtek RTL8821CE 802.11ac PCIe Wireless Network Adapter driver: rtl8821ce 
           IF: wlo1 state: up mac: <filter> 
Drives:    Local Storage: total: 238.47 GiB used: 164.24 GiB (68.9%) 
           ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Toshiba model: KBG30ZMV256G size: 238.47 GiB 
RAID:      Hardware-1: Intel 82801 Mobile SATA Controller [RAID mode] driver: ahci 
Partition: ID-1: / size: 29.40 GiB used: 5.54 GiB (18.8%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2 
           ID-2: /home size: 200.17 GiB used: 158.70 GiB (79.3%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p3 
           ID-3: swap-1 size: 4.00 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/nvme0n1p4 
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 37.0 C mobo: N/A 
           Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A 
Info:      Processes: 206 Uptime: 1h 58m Memory: 7.70 GiB used: 1.39 GiB (18.1%) Shell: bash inxi: 3.0.27 
notebook:~ #

The installation was smooth. WLAN requires kernel-default version 4.19 and rtl8821ce-kmp-default available at https://software.opensuse.org/package/rtl8821ce-kmp-default

Installed packages are:

notebook:~ # zypper packages --installed-only --repo Kernel:stable home:Sauerland
Loading repository data...
Reading installed packages...
S  | Repository     | Name                  | Version                             | Arch  
---+----------------+-----------------------+-------------------------------------+-------
i+ | Kernel:stable  | kernel-default        | 4.19.1-1.1.g91bc4a9                 | x86_64
v  | Kernel:stable  | kernel-default        | 4.19.1-1.1.g91bc4a9                 | i586  
i+ | home:Sauerland | rtl8821ce-kmp-default | git20180902_k4.19.1_1.g91bc4a9-27.8 | x86_64
notebook:~ #

Performance compares well with desktop machines.

UEFI is fast and startup times are very reasonable:

notebook:~ # systemd-analyze
Startup finished in 6.434s (firmware) + 3.071s (loader) + 4.032s (kernel) + 1.938s (initrd) + 4.042s (userspace) = 19.519s
graphical.target reached after 4.019s in userspace
notebook:~ #

Disk performance:

notebook:~ # hdparm -tT /dev/nvme0n1

/dev/nvme0n1:
 Timing cached reads:   25756 MB in  1.99 seconds = 12972.09 MB/sec
 Timing buffered disk reads: 2090 MB in  3.00 seconds = 695.79 MB/sec
notebook:~ #

The cpu is fast and has low power consumption: https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Core+i5-8250U+%40+1.60GHz&id=3042

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With applying snapshot 20181112 everything is back to normal:

notebook:~ # zypper if -t product openSUSE
Loading repository data...
Reading installed packages...


Information for product openSUSE:
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Repository          : openSUSE-20181029-0                               
Name                : openSUSE                                          
Version             : 20181112-0                                        
Arch                : x86_64                                            
Vendor              : openSUSE                                          
Flavor              : ftp                                               
Is Base             : Yes                                               
Installed           : Yes                                               
Status              : up-to-date                                        
Update Repositories : ---                                               
CPE Name            : cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:opensuse:20181112:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Short Name          : openSUSE                                          
Summary             : openSUSE Tumbleweed                               
Description         :                                                   
    openSUSE Tumbleweed is the rolling distribution by the openSUSE.org project.

notebook:~ # zypper lr -uE
Repository priorities are without effect. All enabled repositories share the same priority.

# | Alias               | Name                        | Enabled | GPG Check | Refresh | URI                                                  
--+---------------------+-----------------------------+---------+-----------+---------+------------------------------------------------------
3 | jalbum              | jalbum                      | Yes     | (  ) No   | Yes     | http://jalbum.net/download/software/yumrepo/         
4 | openSUSE-20181029-0 | openSUSE-20181029-0         | Yes     | (r ) Yes  | Yes     | http://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/    
5 | packman             | packman                     | Yes     | (r ) Yes  | Yes     | http://ftp.fau.de/packman/suse/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/  
7 | repo-non-oss        | openSUSE-Tumbleweed-Non-Oss | Yes     | (r ) Yes  | Yes     | http://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/non-oss/
9 | repo-update         | openSUSE-Tumbleweed-Update  | Yes     | (r ) Yes  | Yes     | http://download.opensuse.org/update/tumbleweed/      
notebook:~ # systemd-analyze
Startup finished in 6.333s (firmware) + 4.332s (loader) + 4.516s (kernel) + 1.921s (initrd) + 11.972s (userspace) = 29.076s
graphical.target reached after 2.945s in userspace
notebook:~ #

No additional repositories are necessary for WLAN to work. Startup time is now below 3 seconds.

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Thank you for sharing a brief guide Running Tumbleweed on HP Laptop 15-da0xxx.