Running Leap 15.6. IF i wanted to do the SlowRoll thing,
1- does it have prepos for nVidia?
2- can I use my current ‘Home’ folder (backup it if necsaaary?)?
3- better to install it with the repo add in
or
4 -by the new installer?
5- why is it ‘faster’ than Leap 15.6, nad is it THAT MUCH faster to make the change?
6- does it use zypper for CLI updates?
7- I know there is likely a Leap 15.7 around the bend, but if SlowRoll is going to be Leap users future, better to update now and get used to it?
Don’t you have an backup of your home directory already. If not fix that first.
Yes, you can use your home directory when doing a new install. It is not risk free 100% but you have a good chance it works out of the box, some possible problems can be fixed by clean up caches.
2-> yes (been doing that for years)
5-> “faster” than Leap? Confused. Updates happen more often. As far as performance goes it depends.
7-> There will not be a Leap 15.7/8/9 … Leap 16 Beta is out now (I’m testing it).
I do have a ’Home’ backup, but it is tedious to put on my external drive, then retrieve it when needed.
Regarding that, I do have an empty HDD in my desktop. Is that a good place to keep backups? What format so Leap & windows can share it?
I will wait for 16 release, then consider Slowroll.
That only saves you from a corrupted disk but it is fast and easy.
Other risks are fire, theft, virus/ransomware?
I use two USB3 portable disks with rsync and with the disk encrypted. One is at my office, the other at home on my computer desk. Once every weekend I connect it and and incremental rsync is done in < 2 minutes. About every month I swap the drives.
An error 500 is an error meaning the server was unable to fulfill a request due to an unexpected issue. It’s a broad error, not pointing to a specific issue.
Might do a test with another browser and see if the 500 shows up again. Or use your default browser but use a “Private” tab and see if 500 shows up.
Sometimes, deleting the browser’s sub-directory under the hidden cache sub-directory:
:-> ~/.cache
… directory for your user home helps. For example:
And upgrade someday in second half part of 2025 from SLED15 SP6 to SLED15 SP7. SLED15 SP7 will receive security updates from SUSE until 2028.
Check 2027 the LTSS Linux distributions market and change to the best LTSS desktop linux distribution => (open)SUSE, Red Hat/Alma Linux, Ubuntu, Debian? We will see…
Like SLES, SLED is based on openSUSE Tumbleweed and shares a common codebase with openSUSE Leap.
The shared codebase of Leap 15/SLE15 is in Q1/2026 more mature than the codebase of Leap 16/ALP.
OpenSUSE Leap 16 is now an alpha product. SLE 15 SP7 is already a beta product:
If you need the most stable codebase for desktop pc, your migration path is clear:
OpenSUSE Leap 15.6 → SLED15 SP6 (Q1+Q2/2025) → SLED15 SP7 (Q3+Q4/2025) → open-(SUSE), RHEL/Rocky Linux, Ubuntu or Debian (Q4/2027 + Q1/2028)
Be aware that SUSE has not confirmed a desktop product on codebase ALP. I do not see any sign of an upcoming successor of SLED15 (SLED16). No SLED16 alpha nor SLED16 beta. And the openSUSE community is almost dead in the area of Leap…
If you are happy with a less stable codebase for desktop pc, your (insecure) migration path is:
OpenSUSE Leap 15.6 → OpenSUSE Leap 16.0 (Q4/2025)
