On Wed, 25 Jan 2017 08:22:03 +0800 george from the tribe wrote: 8< - - - - - trimmed - - - - - >8
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
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