Are there easy instructions for installing the Zoom for meetings and Signal-Desktop? Those are both every day necessities for me.
Thanks,
Lance
(20 year Linux end-user, currently using OpenSUSE Leap)
Welcome @LanceHaverkamp to OpenMandriva forum.
Zoom.
Go to website Download Center - Zoom
In Linux type pick “Other Linux OS”, then click and download tar.xz archive with 64-bit version.
After downloading, unpack archive and launch file
ZoomLauncher
by double click.
Signal-desktop
Go to website openSUSE Software and then in SUSE Tumbleweed click on show expetimental packages, then on expert download. In new webpage pick Fedora and download binary packages directly. Then download signal rpm package. You need download .rpm, not src.rpm - just pick this seconds options.
Or just paste this link to browser:
https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/network:/im:/signal/Fedora_33/x86_64/signal-desktop-1.39.6-1.22.x86_64.rpm
Then after downloading. Open terminal (konsole) and run command:
sudo rpm -i --nodeps signal-desktop-1.39.6-1.22.x86_64.rpm
If terminal was open in different dir, then you need to add correct path to downloaded file eg. /home/user/Desktop/signal-desktop-1.39.6-1.22.x86_64.rpm
After this launch app in terminal via this command:
/usr/lib64/signal-desktop/signal-desktop
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Or just paste this link to browser:
https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/network:/im:/signal/Fedora_33/x86_64/signal-desktop-1.39.6-1.22.x86_64.rpm
Thank you, @AngryPenguin. I learned an important thing here that Fedora’s packages are compatible with OpenMandriva. Thanks @LanceHaverkamp, your question is interesting & greetings to you. Glad to find a 20 years GNU+Linux user friend here.
Today there is a problem with the signal-desktop:
$ sudo dnf config-manager --add-repo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/network:im:signal/Fedora_33/network:im:signal.repo
Adding repo from: https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/network:im:signal/Fedora_33/network:im:signal.repo
$ sudo dnf install signal-desktop
Last metadata expiration check: 0:00:54 ago on Tue 15 Jun 2021 12:53:26 PM CDT.
Error:
Problem: conflicting requests
- nothing provides /usr/bin/sh needed by signal-desktop-5.4.0-1.4.x86_64
- nothing provides libopenssl1_0_0 needed by signal-desktop-5.4.0-1.4.x86_64
(try to add '--skip-broken' to skip uninstallable packages)
This is just weird: - nothing provides /usr/bin/sh
Post-edit: The tar.xz for zoom installs OK but it will not start with ZoomLauncher, zoom, of zopen. So it must really need signal-desktop! 
I am a dummy. Signal-desktop and Zoom are two separate things. The Zoom tar.xz install just is not working. Maybe because I am in znver1 system (Cooker)?
With help from OM developers I find 2 ways to install Zoom now. This is in Cooker znver1 but should work in x86_64 as well.
First install:
$ sudo dnf install lib64xcb-xtest0
Then either install the tar.xz version or install the Fedora .rpm with rpm -ihv --nodeps.
$ tar -xvf zoom_x86_64.tar.xz
Then to open from the directory where you installed Zoom:
$ ./zoom/ZoomLauncher
OR:
$ sudo rpm -ihv --nodeps zoom_x86_64.rpm
warning: zoom_x86_64.rpm: Header V4 RSA/SHA1 Signature, key ID 61a7c71d: NOKEY
Verifying... ################################# [100%]
Preparing... ################################# [100%]
Updating / installing...
1:zoom-5.6.22045.0607-1 ################################# [100%]
run post install script, action is 1...
Error in file "/usr/share/applications/krita_jpeg.desktop": "jpeg/jfif" is an invalid MIME type ("jpeg" is an unregistered media type)
Don’t know about that error. What would krita have to do with this? Anyway Zoom is installed in directory /opt so to open:
$ cd /opt
$ ./zoom/ZoomLauncher
And it opens. I do not know a thing about Zoom yet but will be trying the version installed from the Fedora .rpm first.
This should also work in Rolling and probably in Lx 4.2. I’ll be testing that in coming days.
Post edit: Just noticed that with the install from the Fedora .rpm there is already a handy menu entry under “Internet” in Application Menu.