Carlos: yes I'm on Tumbleweed but I'm not comfortable with your solution, fire the upgrade only when I'm ready to reboot means waiting 2000 packages to install to reboot once in a month or reboot every now and then. Johannes: Usually I do a reinstall only on new hardware, I'm not planning to do so in the near future but MicroOs seems like an interesting project I will look at. using a CTRL+ Fx to open a new TTY does not resolve the issue, simply it will save me from konsole crash during the installation, closing Plasma leaves me with no WiFi. Andrei's thank you for the tips. I will try your solution. In the meantime I googled around finding https://github.com/openSUSE/transactional-update peraphs it will apply only to MicroOs or Leap and a patched DE greeter to apply the upgrade on logout/reboot. cheers -- Daniele