I'm seeing a sole console message during splash=silent boots. The message is a number in square brackets, for example [ 5.299369]. The value is always padded with leading spaces and is roughly in the range 5.* to 6.*. It appears some time between the boot splash and X11/sddm startup. This makes me suspect it could be something like the seconds from boot to login prompt. If I switch from sddm to a console, I can see the same message just above the "Welcome to OpenSUSE Tumbleweed..." Is everyone seeing such a message? On a related issue, I also see "eth0: <ipv4-address> <mac-address>" just below the "Welcome to OpenSUSE Tumbleweed...". Is that new, I can't say I'd noticed that before. No big deal, just a bit curious. BTW - I'm using the proprietary Nvidia driver, which might make my bootup messages a bit different than the norm. Michael