Hehehehe, that will take a really long time. Leap 17.0 will, if all goes according to plan, not happen before 2032. And Leap 15.0 was in 2018 … So big fun only twice in 14 years.
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One happy Leap + KDE user here. 
My bad. Kinda disconnected from KDE stuff. But Leap 15.x used to jump between Plasma LTS versions, right? I just found out that KDE does not offer LTS versions of Plasma 6… 
Good that we have the KDE repo available.
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No, it started with KDE 5.x and stuck to that, ending with 5.27, which was LTS, for Leap 15.6 .
https://community.kde.org/Schedules/Plasma_6 tells us that Plasma 6.6 is going to be the new LTS, but no idea if that will actually land in Leap 16.1, definitely not in 16.0
I think both Tumbleweed and Leap are great! I think I’m not the kind of user Tumbleweed is aimed at but I used it for over a year without any serious issues. The main issues for me were at the beginning of the switch to Gnome 49 but the forum was very helpful to consult for little fixes and even those bugs weren’t, like, bricking my computer or anything. I recently switched to Leap because I wanted something even more low maintenance and to be honest I am quite happy with it. I also used to use Debian for years; Leap feels closer to that except it has a nicer installer, is more “secure by default,” and IMHO has a more helpful community + documentation.
My main laptop doesn’t have nvidia though. When I installed Leap on an older laptop with an nvidia card I had to manually tell it to use “nomodeset” before the installer would work. There are posts on here about how to do that, so make sure to read about that if you do end up deciding to switch over to Leap. 
Plasma has LTS for 6.6 thanks to Kubuntu community: https://www.kubuntu.org/news/plasma-6.6-lts/
Kubuntu is taking credit for something they have very little, to nothing to do with. This didn’t come out of the “Kubuntu Community”, Kubuntu isn’t providing money, or dedicated developers for any of this.
Kubuntu Focus is financing this, completely, at the moment, paying Techpaladin to provide the development work for this LTS. Kubuntu Focus is not Kubuntu, they’re a Hardware ISV, that uses Kubuntu.
I give all the props in the world, for Kubuntu Focus, for putting up the financing and making this deal, and incredibly disappointed in Kubuntu for trying to take credit for it.
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Isn’t it a problem of branding? Kubuntu and Kubuntu Focus sound like the same entity.
Yes. It is an awful name.
Kubuntu Focus and Kubuntu are different things. But Kubuntu Focus is one part of the Kubuntu community behind Kubuntu.
I guess I’m in the minority. I prefer a stable, predictable system and updating daily doesn’t appeal to me. I’ve been using openSUSE for 20 years and Leap best reflects my experience.
Just read about that. It seems they announced the return of LTS version on August 13th:
https://pointieststick.com/2026/08/13/what-a-real-lts-looks-like-kubuntu-26-04/
And that is ~5th time it is mentioned in here.
Hello!
I like to add 1 item for Tumbleweed and 1 item against Tumbleweed based on my usage patterns:
- pro Tumbleweed: much wider package selection (for, example audio player
praghaor scanner frontendxsane) some packages have more options built-in (SPICE support forvirt-viewer). It is possible to add extra packages to LEAP (I nag persistently LEAP maintainers to do so , but it is more rigorous process (SUSE has to carefully consider things such as possible patent violations, etc.) and it takes time from accepting request to release, esp. when shared (SLFO) repository is considered - con Tumbleweed: non-essential packages may break with any update due broken dependencies (unlike LEAP it is not blocker to make new release). If nobody steps-in and fix such package it will be removed from TW after grace period.
Personally I prefer LEAP as Host on Desktop (using Xfce/X11) and use Tumbleweed in Virtual Machines.
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