Hi everyone
Im asking if I can change my version from tumbleweed to openSUSE I have searched about it but I’m afraid if it can break my system and I don’t know if slowroll is better for old devices or no. Please help me!
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Yes. Check out the opensuse-migration tool. Because Slowroll is derived from TW, there are other ways to do this as well, but as I recall, the migration tool will do it pretty clearly.
The problem that I don’t know if the updates in slowroll larger than TW or no,and thank you very much I never knew about that tool before that!
Overall, slowroll updates would be smaller. You’ll get (as I recall) one big update a month, whereas for TW you might get multiple big updates per month.
That’s because other than the one big update per month, you will get primarily security and only high-priority fixes on slowroll, whereas on TW, you’ll get everything that has been updated since the previous release.
Then TW is bad or it still good for old devices
Depends on the ‘old device’. If it’s a system that requires a i586 base, then with openSUSE, it (and slowroll, I believe) are your only options.
You will find with the Kernel 7.0 release that some really old device support has been dropped - like bus mouse types and ISDN adapters. So if your system is old enough that it uses both of those, then it may not be a good fit for you.