I installed Sowroll on an oldish spare PC to see what I was missing on Leap 15.6 on my day-to-day laptop.
Slowroll runs great, the more up-to-date software looks nicer but have not noticed major advantages over Leap 15.6. But the frequency of updates have been a surprise. I choose to run zypper dup less than weekly, and on every time it installs ~1000-2000 packages, ~1-2GB. On a slowish PC this takes quite some time.
This has been a disappointment as I chose Slowroll over Tumbleweed because updates would be controlled and issued quarterly(?) rather than a steady stream.
I just checked notifications on this forum, and over the last few weeks there have been almost daily Slowroll updates.
Security updates will come quickly. They shouldn’t be too large unless it is something that affects lots of packages.
Tumbleweed just received the Plasma 6.3.4 update while Leap has Plasma 5.18.6. You may have gotten the 6.3.4 update for your Slowroll.
If you installed Slowroll it should’ve installed with Plasma 6 but may have needed to be upgraded to 6.3.4. Also, QT 6.9 was released and may have been sent to Slowroll too.
I think it’s just bad timing and it’ll slow down and have smaller updates now. You should’ve noticed a huge difference between Leap’s Plasma 5 vs Slowroll’s Plasma 6.
Check your repos and make sure they are configured for Slowroll.
If they’re ok, then you just happened to hop on board when big updates were arriving. Note that Plasma 6.4.x will come soon, around late June or early July. I’m not sure when Suse will have it ready or when it’ll reach Slowroll, but both the initial 6.4.0 release and the 6.4.1 bug fix release will be in June. Suse might wait for the 6.4.1 bug fix release instead of doing two.
This is mostly due to the rapid development of Plasma 6.
Moving to one of the support categories, since it seems you’re asking for some assistance here.
I would show the output of zypper lr -d so we can see what repos you’re configured for. It may be that you’re pulling updates from something other than Slowroll.
Please re-read post #3. @hendersj asked for something different. Now the URLs, the deciding factor in the URL definition, are missing. And people have to assume from the Names and Aliases what the repos are. And assumptions when trying to find computer problems …
It does seem that this is in line with what should be expected. The notifications (which are shared in News and Announcements and are pulled from/reference the factory mailing list) seem to align with what you’re seeing.
I don’t see anything unexpected in the repo list you shared.
Thank you @hendersj , I am glad I haven’t messed up my settings.
Still, this seems to confirm that Slowroll is issuing updates a lot more frequently that what at least I had assumed. Announcements here list April updates on: 10, 9, 7, 4, ,3; March updates on: 29, 27, 26, 23, 20, 19, 18, 17, 16. … etc.
This level of Slowroll updates seems a lot higher than planned and closer to Tumbleweed than expected. Maybe some updates are small and quick, but some are really large taking lot of resources.
Identifying quick bugfixes from main upgrades would help deciding when to update.
Keep in mind the size of the updates with Slowroll is relatively small compared to Tumbleweed.
Slowroll still gets securtiy updates, and that’s probably what you’re seeing. The factory mailing list entries (which the News and Announcements posts link to) detail what all was updated with each release.
Thank you @hendersj et al. I will change to a more frequent update strategy. The short bugfix updates are not a problem (hopefully they don’t get re-issued too often), and the long full upgrades will get (slightly) shorter
We had a big update at 2025-04-09.
You can expect one large update monthly around the 9th and smaller updates with security and bugfixes near-daily (same frequency as Tumbleweed, but only 30% volume)