On 8/26/24 2:13 PM, Mark Post wrote:
My preference is OpenSUSE Tumbleweed, but Leap works "if I gotta".I don't know why you would want to do this to yourself.Tumbleweed is not for the faint of heart, to say the least, and isn't nearly as likely to still be functioning after an update as Leap.
I've been a fan of SUSE for a long time.Skipping details of that (and "Linux is Linux" as far as I'm concerned), but I was using OpenSUSE Leap. THEN at some point I found myself stuck, could not upgrade, across certain Leap release boundaries. I was assured by one colleague, "that won't happen", but it did. Probably my own ignorance. Turned out, though, that Tumbleweed has never yet gotten me into that stuck space. (Not keen on "rolling release" otherwise.)
I've had other distros and systems get "release stuck": 'apt' based and 'pkg' based, including several FreeBSD systems. In some cases, I don't care, because I compile the most sensitive packages myself. But the system as a whole kinda needs to work the way the vendor/distributor designed, so being unable to upgrade is a bad thing.
I've been using Tumbleweed for at least three years now. Never gotten "release stuck". Consistently works well after an upgrade. And my home-built stuff works fine too.
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