Is tumbleweed recommended?

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I dismissed tumbleweed for a long time but now i ask myself if its not
maybe a better strategy to upgrade the system over time without
installing new.

What i like to know is how well it works in the day to day use. If you
use it you should need anymore to reinstall the system brand new. I
think that sounds not to bad really.

But on the other hand i wonder if you get also a more instable system.
Well, it sound very similar to Archs approach from what i was reading.

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Sounds like a trick question

Portal:Tumbleweed - openSUSE

You decide.
I’d say. Any one that goes that route needs a reasonable level of experience

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I’ve been using it for a month or so now and never had a problem - even using the ATI and broadcom proprietary drivers. I did do 1 reinstall though, onto btrfs - I tried the btrfs-convert but for some reason I couldnt get my computer to boot after converting the root partition and changing fstab. There are quite regular kernel updates (last week it felt like there were one a day…!) so if you’re using proprietary driver you just need patience, but the Portal (linked by caf4926) warns of that.

Me? I like the idea of staying up to date without reinstalls so Tumbleweed makes me very happy. I’m yet to see what happens when I “zypper dup” after 12.2 is released, at the moment I think my system is basically 12.1 just with a newer kernel.

Thanks,
Andrew

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On 2012-03-08 02:37, JoergJaeger wrote:
> I dismissed tumbleweed for a long time but now i ask myself if its not
> maybe a better strategy to upgrade the system over time without installing
> new.

You replace updating once a year with updating every week.
Not exactly that, but kind of.

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Hi,

Personally I think Factory is even better than Tumbleweed. (I had been using Factory from 11.2 to 11.4, until I fresh installed 12.1 on my new harddisk)

Sometimes, not often, applications can not be built against Tumbleweed, whose main repository lack of some fundamental libraries. so you may have to use Factory repository or some others. then later on you update your system to Factory state unconsciously. trust me it will happen one day or another.