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Tumbleweed Monthly Update and Seamless Migration from Windows to openSUSE Leap and Tumbleweed
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OpenSUSE ☛ Tumbleweed Monthly Update - March 2025
This month brought the debut of GNOME 48, delivering modern User Interface polish, performance improvements and new features like digital wellbeing tools and HDR support. On the KDE side, Plasma 6.3.3 refined fractional scaling, display handling and usability. Mesa 25.0.1 introduced ray tracing support for Intel Arc GPUs and Emacs 30.1 enhanced org-protocol handling, security, and completion features. Other packages updated were PipeWire 1.4.1, libvirt 11.1.0, GStreamer 1.26.0, PHP 8.3.19 and more. Tumbleweed now includes experimental support for parallel package downloads and a new media backend that was introduced with zypper 1.14.87 and libzypp 17.36.4; this offers a major speed boost for package management as it cuts package fetch times by more than half.
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OpenSUSE ☛ Seamless migration from Windows
openSUSE takes a step further by offering users a seamless migration tool for migration from Windows 10 and 11 to openSUSE Leap and Tumbleweed. The migration tool covers the migration of the NTFS filesystem to Btrfs, user data, Steam game library, and most of the common applications that coexist on both platforms.