Results from a use case survey gave some insightful information about how people perceive openSUSE Slowroll. Some view it as a replacement for openSUSE Leap,...
  • dnzmEnglish
    1•5 months ago

    This sounds like it’d be exactly how I currently use Tumbleweed on my workstations: I don’t update daily, but rather every once in a while. I appreciate the new versions of things, but being on the daily bleeding edge is more work than I care to put in.

    I can also see this working quite nicely for those with nvidia hardware, where with TW you’d sometimes end up with a kernel too new for the drivers to get shoehorned in. A slightly easier-going pace would help there.

    It also reminds me of Android, where you have roughly monthly updates (theoretically) and every now and then a bigger one.

    • @fr0g@feddit.deEnglish
      1•5 months ago

      I don’t update daily, but rather every once in a while

      Sounds like Slowroll could be for you then. Even if TW is updated infrequently, it’s still a roll of the die whether that specific snapshot you will be updating to will be one of the rare ones that have some issues. In theory at least, Slowroll should fix that by trying to handpick some select promising snapshots. Whether that works out as intended in practice will remain to be seen of course, as backporting some security fixes ca of course also introduce potential instabilities.