On Mon, 06 Jul 2020 01:15:13 +0200 Atri Bhattacharya <badshah400@opensuse.org> wrote:
On Sun, 2020-07-05 at 17:33 -0400, DennisG wrote:
Doug, as an aside (and no offense meant), IMO you would happier with Leap than TW: "Tumbleweed appeals to Power Users, Software Developers, and openSUSE Contributors"; it is "bleeding edge.".
Sorry Dennis, but with all due respect, this is incorrect information. On the openSUSE wiki, the TW portal page [1] says the following in its __second__ paragraph to answer the question, "Who should try Tumbleweed?": "Also, Tumbleweed should appeal most to Power Users, Software Developers (who require the latest software stacks and IDEs) and openSUSE Contributors (who need a reliable platform that is as close to openSUSE Factory as possible while remaining usable)."
This means that if you are a power user, developer, or an oS contributor, TW should appeal to you the most (i.e. more than Leap) -- quite different from the impression your (mis)quoted text conveys.
There seems to be some language problem here, because you and Dennis appear to me to be saying the same thing.
TW is definitely meant to be -- and recommended to be -- used by regular users who need or want the most recent *stable* (i.e. not bleeding edge) versions of packages. Indeed, on the same wiki page, the first paragraph actually says, "Any user who wishes to have newer packages than are available in the openSUSE Leap repositories."
Specific to Doug's case, he would face the exact same problems if he were to change to Leap 15.2 today, namely: no artha; even older versions of gutenprint drivers than on TW; installing non-free (and probably illegally distributed) master-pdf-editor from some random OBS repository; etc.
Doug's problems are different, IMHO. Not a lot to do with the difference between TW and Leap. Doug wanted to avoid the problems associated with upgrades from one Leap release to the next. Moving to TW would not be my choice to resolve that problem (if indeed it is capable of resolution).
Cheers,
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