Welcome to the monthly update for openSUSE Tumbleweed for January 2024. This will be the new format going forward as recommended by those contributing to the...
  • edric@lemm.eeEnglish
    8·
    5 months ago

    Haven’t tried openSUSE Tumbleweed yet but I heard it’s a great stable rolling release distro. I might give it a try. How’s the package manager?

    • mholiv@lemmy.world
      8·
      5 months ago

      Good but slow. Zypper has nice features but for some reason it can only download one package at a time. There is a GitHub issue about this that has been around for years.

    • GravitySpoiledEnglish
      41·
      5 months ago

      It’s great, there’s a toolbx/distrobox image, check it out

      $ toolbox create --image quay.io/toolbx-images/opensuse-toolbox:tumbleweed
$ toolbox enter opensuse-toolbox-tumbleweed

      I’d go for the atomic version nowadays

    • kylian0087@lemmy.world
      1·
      5 months ago

      rolling release is not the same as bleeding edge mind you. While Tumblweed is very close to bleeding edge it does actually do a load of quality control and automated test before making the updates available in the repos.

      • GravitySpoiledEnglish
        1·
        5 months ago

        That’s a reason not to use the suse repo. Alpha or maybe beta is bleeding edge. One month behind is just one month behind.