Experiences with 12.1 MS5 ++

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The subject has MS5 ++ in it because I am now running with the latest Factory.
To get there, I did the following:

  1. Using YaST => Software Repositories, I disabled all existing repos. and added
    a new one for “Factory oss” and another for “Factory non-oss” These have URLs
    that are similar to the existing “oss” and “non-oss” except for changing
    “distribution/12.1” to “factory”.

  2. Update the system with “sudo zypper up”. You must use zypper as YaST does not
    understand that it can update from factory. This step will update 1200 or more
    packages.

  3. Reboot.

After doing these steps, my systems improved a lot.

Booting with systemd now works in most cases - before, I had numerous difficulties.

The plasmoid networkmanager now works. It still asks for the root password more
often that it should, but there has been considerable improvement, and I no
longer need to switch to the nm-applet.

With these changes, my expectations for the 12.1 GM are much higher than before.

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Thanks. It is good to hear about these improvements.

For the networkmanager plasmoid, I am already seeing what you described with M5. And systemd is not working with M5.

I think I’ll pass on the update, though, and wait for M6 (or beta1) instead.