Hello fellow lemmings! Fedora KDE user here, and quite happy about it, it didn’t break a single time and packages are up to date. The only thing that bother me is DNF’s speed… a single search may take up to 5 seconds, and if I’m dependency-hunting I may need several searches, summing up the delays. I’m asking if switching to openSUSE Tumbleweed could be a good idea or not. The idea of the rolling release is really intriguing, whole system upgrades always makes me nervous, and zypper, being written in C++, should be faster than DNF.

I would stick to Wayland KDE, as my current fedora setup.

Other than this, I don’t see any other obvious pros or cons, so I’m asking you: why should I switch and why shouldn’t I? any tips from someone who used both?

thanks in advance!

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    1 year ago

    I couldn’t get on with TW when I tried it because because of very large updates, time-consuming updates appearing at random. Is that something you find? I prefer the predictability of Fedora.

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      1 year ago

      The beauty of Tumbleweed is that you don’t have to update straight away. I typically update weekly but on my play-puter I have gone 18 months between updates without a problem. The updates do tend to be quite large though so a slow Internet connection can take a long time to download them.

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        1 year ago

        Isn’t that a security risk, or can you easily choose to just apply security-important patches? That was the problem I had, I’d see a massive load of new packages and wonder “can I leave this for now or is one of those a critical patch?” On Fedora it’s a no-brainer, I just do the upgrade every night and the big version update when I’m ready.

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          It’s update all or nothing. Whether it’s a security risk or not to leave it for a few days depends on your threat model and as much as I’d like to believe I’m important, mine’s minimal.