Re: Tumbleweed vs 16.0

As long as I have Trinity and Mate I am ok.  The new versions of GNOME and
KDE might not fit my old 32 boxes.
Now that I have dome laptop research for new 64 bit I am glad to find there
are more than heavily changed Leap for software choices.  I dislike being a
guinea pig for a daily use system.

CWSIV

On Thu, Jun 25, 2026 at 6:54 PM David C Rankin <[email protected]>
wrote:

> 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.
>