On 01/21/2017 03:17 AM, John Andersen wrote:
On 01/20/2017 03:52 AM, Carl Hartung wrote:
In any case, I've concluded that it will be smarter / better this time for me to ride out the rest of 2017 on my current (IMHO) 'production' grade, highly tailored 13.2 installation.
I was prepared to do the same, and then switch distros when 13.2 finally fell out of maintenance or a serious security flaw appeared.
But a hard disk replacement (with an ssd) caused me to reconsider, and give 42.2 a try. (I had the old drive on the shelf as fallback).
So I did a fresh install of Leap 42.2, and I have to say I am pleasantly surprised.
For the desktop environment, software development, Vmware, etc, I've found 42.2 quite stable, zero crashes, easy to manage. This dated laptop has never been better.
I've trimmed (shut off) QT logging chatter, avoided BTRFS entirely. But other that, its a bog standard Opensuse install.
I don't understand the criticism of 42.2 for the desktop role. Seems fine to me.
And I'm known around here as THAT GUY who would be bitching if there were major problems.
Wow long thread and lots of good comments. I will just weigh in here and sort of reiterate what John is saying. I bought a Dell XPS back in March of last year, upgraded to a 500GB SSD over the 128 that it came with, set it up for dual boot on Windows 10 and openSUSE, and then installed Leap 42.1 on it. Leap 42.1 had 2 primary problems - 1st was that the plasma desktop was very unstable, and I had to go with gnome for a few days until I could connect with the right repositories to get qt and other things to work. The 2nd problem was that the wifi didn't work, because the standard kernel didn't support the latest and greatest network card Dell had installed on the XPS. So, on advice from this list, I downloaded the latest stable kernel from the kernel repository, and then was able to connect to wifi. Since then it has run pretty well. Last month I upgraded to Leap 42.2, and I found it refreshingly stable. Before the upgrade I put a lock on the kernel so it wouldn't change (I upgraded via a zypper dup), and I have been continuing to run with that ever since. I will also note, like John, that I have avoided BTRFS on this installation, and all my other installations, until I have time to study the system out and make sure it runs effectively. I tried to do an install with BTRFS on my first 42.1 install on my desktop, and the install failed, but I didn't take time to troubleshoot it as I was very busy then with other things. It took some work to get things going well on my XPS (mostly with help from this list), but it was worth the effort. George -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org