Does it matter how old a install usb for Tumleweed is

People are trying to help me, and for now I am praying they can help me to fix it.

Now if this fails, I do have an old Tumbeweed install usb.
Does it matter how the old the install USB is ? Its years old.

It shouldn’t, but you shouldn’t install a 2 year old TW version. You likely won’t succeed if you try.

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Growing fungus on it?

Thank you, and for now I will wait, but I will make a new install usb if it comes to reinstlling Tumbleweed.

Sorry, bad joke.

You do not tell what you are fearing for. But installing from it and then a zypper dup has a good chance I think.

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Lol, I installed tumbleweed years ago, and kept the install usb.

Its still working, and currently the only way I can boot my Tumbleweed install.

I am however staring to fear, I might have to reinstall Tumbleweed.
Lets hope it wont come to that, but then I need to make a new install usb.

Why not? It is an integrated full fledged operating system and thus should function except when it does not support newer hardware.

A fresh one will be better and will spare you the extra large zypper dup. And it will also spare you some stress I assume :wink:

I am already stressed. :wink:

Installing tumbleweed is not that much work, but then I wil have to install a lot of programs. Then I need to go to quite a few forums to fix the login.
Add repositories.

like this one;

its worse on windows, but even on openSUSE it will take me days to have Tumbleweed the way I want it.

I am also thinking of how to prevent this from happening again.

Taking windows out of grub comes to mind.
Then when I want to start windows, I can do it through the motherboard.
I hardly ever need windows, and this is not the frist time windows update messes grub up. :frowning:

That is always the part that wonders me. That so many people want a multi-boot situation with Windows. Even when I would need Windows (which not) I would probably get some second hand hardware (from myself or elsewhere) to put it on (and then leave it in an obscure corner).

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It may install, but upgrading from 20220825 to 20240825 success I wouldn’t bet a lot on. When was that usrmerge, last year, or the year before, or longer? I wouldn’t measure success by getting 20220825 onto his system, but by getting it to 20240825. And, what if it’s three, four or five years old?

I am a gamer.

There is an old game I used to play a lot. Aliens vs Predator 2.

Fans of this game already asked Valve to add this game to proton.
Valve replied that they cant, because the game studio does not exist anymore.

I also made maps for this game and a single player map.
Sometimes I just like to play the game again, but this must be the last time windows messed my up my linux install.

Need to talk to Malcom probably.
If he can fix this easier for now, if I disconnect the windows hard disk.

These days the game might just work through wine.

My map the Enterprise of star trek appears at 5m25sec. :slight_smile:

Yes, the step might be too big.

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