Installed XFCE in VM and from there Cosmic
sudo zypper addrepo --refresh https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/X11:COSMIC:Next/openSUSE_Factory/X11:COSMIC:Next.repo
sudo zypper refresh
sudo zypper install patterns-cosmic-cosmic
OR
sudo zypper install patterns-cosmic-basic
df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/vda2 19G 8.2G 11G 45% /
Not bad.
“Whatever floats your boat”
Slowroll looked interesting to me, but I had some issues with the new installer the last time I tried out openSUSE, then there was a question of whether or not it would be continued…Maybe worth another look at some point.
Installed that way and it looks like there is no stuttering anymore. Strange … 
Ha, mysterious are the ways of software interactions, sometimes less is more ?
It looks that way. But maybe it is an openSUSE-thing only. 
Hah, yeah, if you really wanted to go there, you could do an exhaustive dual-install and compare differences and add/remove things till the symptoms occur/disappear. I’ve done this at least once, and i stress the word exhaustive ;0
I recall having more consistent systems using the online install option during my SUSE/openSUSE days.
Huurrruuuummm… “FreeBSD” … your journey hasn’t ended, believe me 
I’ve tried that too… There is no more desire 
I want to go there, but with inadequate hard ware support and inferior software compatability/availability, it’s just hard to take it seriously over Linux distros.
I must say, openSUSE Tumbleweed has been rock solid. No issues thus far. Updates are very quick, even with several added repos via OPI, and Packman for codecs. The fingerprint sensor on my ThinkPad worked out of the box. Overall, it’s been an excellent experience.
This is tempting me to resurrect my old T40 thinkpad and put Tumbleweed on it! 
Does openSUSE Tumbleweed have the LTS kernels like 6.12.x, 6.6.x and so on in its repos? Or does it only have kernels provided by openSUSE like Debian?
openSUSE ships with its own default kernel. I prefer the Zen kernel, which apparently isn’t supported. Closest to Zen is the Liquorix kernel, which is what I’m using. In order to get the Liquorix kernel, I had to add the repo from OBS.