Thanks! This will be veryuseful when I update in a month. I have some config to prevent popping sounds when the soundcard goes to sleep.

The system tray is the one thing i need to see that/if email/steam/chat is running and if there's new messages. Otherwise gnome works great for me

Well if they are in the repos i assume it be less likely to have incompatibilites when updates happen?

The problem with openSUSE Tumbleweed I have is that so far I've never been able to install it. For all other Linux distros I can just get the ISO and use virt-manager to create a VM. But openSUSE never manages to boot. Any ideas why? I'd love to try it.

Edit: I'm trying it again now and i made it into the installer now

Edit2: installed it and am trying it out. Looks good on first glance but some packages that i'd really need to use it as a daily driver appear not to be present, like gnome-shell-extension-appindicator or gnome-shell-extension-caffeine