I want to try openSUSE again. Please help

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Hi,

Because of my bad experience with openSUSE 13.2 I uninstalled it, there were graphical artifacts and the package manager was refusing to connect to the net and update, but I was to browse the net through FireFox.

Now I want to get openSUSE again, because of it’s color and mascot, I presently have other Linuxes installed, can I use the root, home and swap of those for openSUSE? When openSUSE updates, does it provide new boot entry, because in Fedora whenever it’s kernel is update it provides an updated boot entry and I don’t openSUSE erase that feature, how can I install openSUSE and still retain that feature of Fedora?

What are Leap and Tumbleweed? What is the difference between those and which should I choose?

Thanks

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You can reuse partition but you can ot share root since that is where all the programs kernel etc is. You can share home and swap. but since you may have different desktop versions there could be incompatible config files in your home so it is best to use a different user name in each that share a home partition

Leap is the newest stable version and Tumbelweed is a rolling version which updates often. ie TW is cutting edge Leap is a stable distro with only bug fixes as updates. If you like playing with the OS then TW is good if you want stable to do work use LEAP

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Thanks** gogalthorp](https://forums.opensuse.org/member.php/37208-gogalthorp)** for your helpful reply, I don’t know what this forum would be without you. REP+