Can we assume that eventually all Tumbleweed repos should have their Slowroll equivalents? (Subquestion: How can I help to make Slowroll equivalent to Tumbleweed in terms of available repos)
For now, is it generally OK to use the Tubleweed repos if no Slowroll equivalent exists.
Re #2: I do it with the KDE3 repo, on multiple multiboot PCs. On occasion it becomes necessary to resolve a dependency conflict by choosing to keep installed package. On the next upgrade or two, it will normally clear up. This is logical, since the difference between TW and SR is primarily about timing. Given the daily updates that have become customary in SR, I’ve come to doubt there’s much point in preferring SR to TW, or in SR’s existence.
If I understand your comment, it is generally OK to use Tumbleweed repos where no Slowroll equivalent exists? Just we should be wary of occational conflicts.
On the Slowroll’s reason to exist … I hear you … I have been a long time happy user of Tumbleweed (basically since inception). I pretty much was doing zypper dist-upgrade in TW daily.
I rarely had any TW issues - the rare cases were around NVIDIA … I sort of hoped that Slowroll will remove SOME of those issues, purely due to less frequent updates, and (hopefully) a bit more checks before releases.
I will stay with Slowroll for now, until proven it is not much better than TW (anyone … do not take me wrong, TW is great, amazing … just thought Slowroll may be even better)
Hi.
I had tumbleweed and now I have 2 slowrolls. It is true that slowroll has daily updates. But, for me who often use a 5G/4G+ connection, it makes a huge difference!!!
Both my TWs and SRs get their upgrades on intervals of typically 4-6 weeks on average, so upgrades are in the 300-500 transaction range when not increased by major rebuilds.
Hi @mrmazda
When you have a limited amount of Gb each month you might notice that there is a noticeable difference between Slowroll and Tumbleweed. I update every day and I have found these differences. How much? In my humble opinion Slowroll updates compared to Tw I would say 1/4 or 1/5… At least taking downloaded GB as a reference.
But as I said, I’m not an expert. In fact, I’m a complete novice!
As your update schedule is once every month or more, there would be virtually no difference. For daily updates, it makes a huge difference.
I’m curious about security for your internet connected apps (browser, email client, etc.) and services (ssh, etc.) and if you have any special daily updates (perhaps by parsing the changelog for security issues) or containers for those? I wouldn’t recommend not updating those for over a month if it’s not jailed properly inside a container and even then it should not have any saved/cached info. 🫨
You’re rather new here. My usage pattern is uncommon to say the least. Internet connected apps aren’t used much on my test boxes. Average monthly uptime on them is less than 20 minutes per month in excess of uptime updating or upgrading, and more often than not, it is on the same boot as update or upgrade success was confirmed.
Good to know, your use case is not typical at all, and I guess for someone with so many instances it doesn’t make sense to “save” on update size or frequency
