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I think you could download the ISO for tumbleweed on your host system, mount it within your VM, and add it as a local repository through YaST?
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I’m guessing your use case require extra steps towards anonymity.
2 ways :
Download the needed .rpm from software.opensuse.org from another machine, transfer via USB, install manually from terminal or YAST ; it is gonna be tedious since dependencies will be missing and you will have to pull them, transfer them, install them manually.
(cleaner). It’s probably easier to wipe your system, re-install while connected behind either a PiHole or a VPN on your phone using HotSpot + a decent DNS provider and setting the VPN to target an unusual location. This time, do configure properly your machine including extra software that may not be available on the offline installation media. Reboot, configure, don’t use previous VPN location ever again.
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My proposition here is that your machine (current mac address) will be once online, through a location used once, with dns-leak protection - yes, your machine will be fingerprinted once, and if the only thing you do when using this particular config is pulling software from the opensuse repos, and pay attention to only ever after live your online life with the spoofed mac and another VPN location, connecting both gonna be near impossible. Who’s gonna fingerprint you anyway, if really the only use of the network is the Suse installer pulling rpm’s from its own repos? At that, Nord isn’t worst than any other since the internet provider for the connection can only sniff you going to some X location for an hour or so.
Extra Paranoid Step, do it from any public free WiFi across town or something.
You know, at the end of the day, fingerprinting works very well even behind the standard privacy protection we all know about. An interesting concept I read here was that the more addons / special stuff you add to protect you, the more “unique” is your profile, enabling efficient tracking!
Good luck with all this
Tumbleweed/ProtonVPN here
As a rule of thumb, the vpns you see the most ads for are the worst (assuming you see ads). I like airvpn, but mullvad is good if you don’t need port forwarding. NordVPN, as far as I know, is one of the worst.
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