My initial rant in this thread resulted from the fact that the very first thing I needed to do to install Leap 16.0 (setting up two disks as RAID-1) was not possible with the new installer. Good old YaST was gone, without even an option to fall back to it. So I had to set up the RAID-1 manually. After successful installation I saw that I would now be forced to convert everything to UTF-8, which I absolutely don’t want to do. After trying to copy my existing Leap 15.3 installation to my new PC hardware, I had to accept that that distro couldn’t support the new SSDs and NVMes. So I patched Qt6 to make it work with Latin1 (iso8859-1) again (at least for the applications I use).
Well, the only thing SUSE is to blame for is having replaced YaST with an incomplete “Agama”, without offering a fallback option.
So, after these initial hickups, I guess I’ll be using Leap 16.0 after all…