

Been using Tumbleweed as well. May I ask if you encountered these 2 issues:
Haven’t experienced either of those issues. Have you tried to isolate KDE in those cases? Not sure how you’d do it with the deletion because there’s no Trash for the terminal, but you could try the copy operation and see if your device is still blocked when it’s finished in the terminal?
Those are both file operations so they don’t strike me as strictly DE-related.
Oh boy! Here’s your second then:
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