Planet News Roundup – openSUSE News

10. Apr 2026 | Douglas DeMaio | CC-BY-SA-3.0

This is a summary of articles from the openSUSE community listed on planet.opensuse.org.

The community blog feed collection lists the highlights below from April 3rd to 9th.

Blogs this week cover the fourth bug fix update for KDE Plasma 6.6, Slimbook’s refreshed Creative ultrabook with the AMD Ryzen AI 9 365 with a dedicated AI NPU, and the promotion of Slimbook Days 2026, which sales help support donations to KDE. Blogs also highlights two new Plasmoids for Plasma 6. One is the Aero Weather viewer and the other is Battery Plasmoid Boero. There were also practical tips for openSUSE users about using Rufus in DD mode when writing USB installation media.

Here is a summary and links for each post:

The Geeko Blog openSUSE warns users that writing a DVD image to a USB drive with Rufus in ISO mode may silently skip files, resulting in a broken installer that fails to start in the middle of installation. The author discovered this when trying a fresh install of openSUSE 16.0 on physical hardware and confirmed the problem on multiple machines. Switching Rufus to DD mode completely solved the problem, and readers are advised to always use DD mode when creating openSUSE USB media.

The KDE Blog presents Aero Weather; this is a desktop viewer widget for KDE Plasma. The plasmoid displays current conditions and a multi-day weather forecast directly on the desktop. It also has support for automatic IP-based location detection or manual coordinates along with customizable font colors.

The KDE Blog covers Slimbook’s 2026 refresh of its Creative ultrabook featuring the AMD Ryzen AI 9 365 processor with a dedicated NPU designed for local AI workloads. The updated model also brings improvements in performance, design, personalization and portability.

The KDE Blog announces the fourth bugfix update of KDE Plasma 6.6, released on April 7, 2026, continuing the project’s regular maintenance cadence after the feature release. The post recaps the major new features introduced in the full Plasma 6.6 release, including the new Plasma Keyboard on-screen keyboard, OCR text extraction in Spectacle, and a new Plasma Setup Configuration Wizard. As with all bugfix updates, the release is highly recommended for all users.

The KDE Blog presents Battery Plasmoid Boero, which is a widget that provides detailed battery monitoring, including charge/discharge graphs and power mode settings. The plasmoid is aimed at laptop users who want more granular control over battery status than the default widget offers. Users interested in energy efficient computers should visit eco.kde.org.

The KDE Blog translates and summarizes the latest “This Week in Plasma” development report, which covers ongoing work on interface refinements and stability fixes headed to Plasma 6.7. The post highlights several improvements over Plasma components aimed at making the desktop feel more polished and reliable for day-to-day use. This is part of the blog’s ongoing series of Spanish translations of Nate Graham’s weekly KDE development updates.

CubicleNate’s blog recap of episode 194 of the Linux Saloon podcast, which focused on a range of current technology topics, including Google’s Android ecosystem changes and sideloading restrictions. Participants also discussed the Claude Code source leak, critical security vulnerabilities in Telegram, and a notable increase in Steam’s reported Linux usage share. Yay!

Jakub Steiner’s blog share a personal travel post about a return trip to Japan. This time focused on Tokyo and a short trip to Kawaguchiko during cherry blossom season. The post reflects on shooting with a Fuji X-T20 camera rather than relying solely on a smartphone, and includes a link to a full photo gallery on the author’s photography website.

The KDE Blog announces the arrival of Slimbook Days 2026, which is a promotional sales period for the GNU/Linux hardware brand that takes place between April 8 and 12. The post encourages readers to take advantage of the opportunity, noting that Slimbook devices are fully preconfigured for GNU/Linux and come with a portion of every sale supporting the KDE community.

The KDE Blog examines the screenshot and screen recording improvements in KDE Plasma 6.6, with a specific focus on Spectacle’s new ability to recognize and extract text from captured images using OCR. This addition is highlighted as a significant usability and accessibility improvement and makes it easier to create alt text for visual content.

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