I don’t want to give up on Opensuse, but I’ve broken and had to reinstall tumbleweed so many times. I think I want to switch off tw, but I’m not sure to what.
I read something on this forum that I can’t find that said if I don’t update tumbleweed often, it’s bad (wish I could find it again because it said something else). Is that the same for slowroll? I see a lot of updates for it, when they say it should be once per month. Is that because it’s still in beta, or is it because of security updates?
I understand that there is a balance between stability and new updates, but I think leap is a little too slow for my liking. If slowroll isn’t a huge improvement over tw, I might go with leap though since Kde is slowing down anyways.
I understand this is written by volunteers, and I am very greatful for the contributions. When my tw works, I am in bliss. But sadly sometimes it doesn’t and I dont want to give up on Opensuse since it usually works great for me. I’d love to hear your thoughts before I switch! (Sorry if this doesn’t go here, I don’t know where else to put it)
Perhaps it would be helpful to tell how tw broke for you, and how comes you had to reinstall despite OpenSuse’s preconfigured snapshot feature? If you want to switch to something to improve stability, that would definitely be helpful to know. Like me, many people probably ask themselves why it might be so unstable for you but don’t the “doesn’t happen to me” reply person.
Generally it sounds like Slowroll would be a good compromise for you though.
Unless you have other good reasons, I would chose Leap. I have that installed for my parents and never had any problem with updates. Slowroll is still Alpha and has been able to skip some Tumbleweed problems but not all.
I’m not sure why it happens a lot to me. I might wait a little too long between updates or something. Or I’m just a bad user lol.
One time I couldn’t get back into my drive since the password was wrong, even though I was pretty sure it was right. Also two times it just went into emergency mode and i couldn’t really figure out why. All of those times a rollback didn’t help.
Also recently I had some internet problems when updating. A rollback worked there but then I couldn’t update it or else I would have those internet problems.
A couple more stories like those where it’s just a pain to deal with, so I end up reinstalling.
I’ll think about using slowroll, thank you for replying!
Another reason I am hesitate to use leap is I like to game, and I’m think people tend to recommend faster updates for gaming… Also it’s nice to have Kde updates. Waiting a little under a year for plasma 6 on leap is a little rough for fomo and qol features.
I’m not sure where that leaves me, but thank you for sharing . Maybe if it was later in slowroll life I wouldn’t have thought about leap, but right now I hear the maintainers are a little busy.
One time I couldn’t get back into my drive since the password was wrong, even though I was pretty sure it was right. Also two times it just went into emergency mode and i couldn’t really figure out why. All of those times a rollback didn’t help.
Just a shot in the dark, but do you happen to use a Samsung Evo SSD with full disk encryption?
There was some very specific version that had a weird hardware bug (cache-related I think) causing LUKS volumes on it to more or less randomly break. While it’s unlikely you happen to have exactly that kind of SSD it might be worth mentioning, especially since rollbacks never seem to work for you properly either. May I ask what device you use, or is it a custom built PC?
Anyway, Slowroll still is my recommendation. More up-to-date software will benefit you for games as well, especially regarding video drivers and such.
That’s interesting. I have a dell gaming laptop. I also have a Samsung nvme, but I don’t think it’s specifically an evo. I might look into that since I haven’t heard of the bug before.
. Maybe if it was later in slowroll life I wouldn’t have thought about leap, but right now I hear the maintainers are a little busy.