Re: Tumbleweed vs 16.0

On 6/24/26 11:59 AM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
> On 2026-06-24 13:47, Carl Spitzer wrote:
>> What if any preference exists?
> 
> Notice that in TW you will be with the first people to experience 
> changes. It is bleeding age, ie, you can bleed. You will experience the 
> new features and the new bugs before other people, and we expect you to 
> explain them to us ;-p
> 

I don't know Carlos, I think you are selling TW short. The openSUSE devs 
have done an excellent job with their build QA. Only recent hiccup of 
notice with Apparmor 5.0. That wasn't anything that couldn't be 
worked-around for a day or two until the updated profiles were worked out.

Other than that, I'd agree with OldTimer, no more problems with TW than 
with Leap. For two years I've driven TW as the daily driver since moving 
from 15.4 on two boxes. No complaints, no real uptick in issues, no 
difference in package availability.

(now granted, I'm not using Plasma or Gnome, so I'm not bleeding-edge on 
desktops)

The upside is you are always current, you never have an EOL issue and 
don't have to set aside a day or two for new install and tweaking of 
everything after EOL to get your desktop back.

Both SLES and TW have their place, but TW and the rolling-release model 
doesn't mean giving up stability or reliability.

-- 
David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.