Re: Tumbleweed vs 16.0

Knurpht <[email protected]> Fri, 26 Jun 2026 16:04:45 +0200
Newsgroups	gmane.linux.suse.general
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Op vrijdag 26 juni 2026 10:08:00 Midden-Europese zomertijd schreef Carlos E. 
R. via openSUSE Users:
> I fight no daily problems 🙂
> 

Neiighter do I. On TW since ~2012 when it was not yet officially released ( that 
happened in 2014 )

> I have problems once a year, when upgrading, then nothing for a year.

Sorry, but from this list I have a "slightly" different impression

I, in all my TW years had only one real issue, being the upstream bug in 
ddcutil ( that btw only occurred on some relatively new AMD hardware, and then 
only on KDE Plasma, both X11 and Wayland ). To mention the /usr move of /etc, 
there indeed has been a lot of discussion, not so much distro related issues. 
The step in itself IMHO should be adapted by all distros, mainly for the 
reason of the separation of package owned configs in /usr/etc and the user/
admin overrides in /etc. No more messing around with .rpmnew / .rpmsave and so 
on. From the forums' posts re. TW: most of the time the reported issues are 
not distro issues, but the addidtion of 3rd party repos ( also Packman, which 
the average user often does not need at all these days.). Same on Leap btw. 
And all that with the restriction that if you have AMD & need hardware 
accelleration & you refuse to use flatpaks, then you need Mesa from Packman. 

As a test, you could create a VM with TW using all the defaults, and then dup 
it on every snapshot announcement, testing the DE and after a month evaluate 
your experiences. I think that will be "slightly" different than the impression 
you have now. Mind, to keep it fair, stick with the defaults. Compare it to 
test-driving a car for a month, you drive that as it is to get proper test 
results. 

Summarized: My experiences with TW ( currently a 3 yo, a 6 yo and a 10 yo 
install, never reinstalled ) are totally different than your perceptions. 

-- 
Gertjan Lettink a.k.a. Knurpht
openSUSE Mods Team
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