On Sam, 2016-02-06 at 12:53 +0100, Frans de Boer wrote:
When I initially tried Leap, the stability was a disaster. So, I went
back to Tumbleweed. Which at the time was stable enough. However, from time to time I still have to go back to 13.2 because Tumbleweed is not always so stable.
Leap is now around for some time, so I wonder if it is stable enough nowadays to be used instead of 13.2. The later is kind off showing his age.
I upgraded my server/workstation from 13.1 to Leap 42.1 (fresh install) a good month after it was released. I find it to be super stable, and definitely an improvement over 13.1. The machine runs a handful of server VMs 24x7, and it's also my main workstation (Gnome DE, dual monitor). The hardware is kernel-friendly (AMD CPU and GPU), and needs nothing but the standard Leap repositories. HOWEVER, at first I installed Leap with the Plasma5 DE, and it did look very appetizing, indeed. I've always used KDE on Linux so far, up to and including KDE 4 on 13.1, and I was eager to upgrade to Plasma5. Unfortunately, it turned out to be far to unstable, and with too many missing features. Switching to Gnome was a completely different experience - very polished, and surprisingly pleasant. I have huge respect for the KDE developers, and at heart it is my preferred DE. That's why I find it such an excruciating shame that, from a user's point of view, every time KDE moves to a new Qt version, it seemingly falls apart, loses a baffling amount of features, and becomes a beta-something for years. I lived through the jarring disruptions of the transition from KDE 3 to 4, but can't be bothered an y more. I do follow the development of Plasma5 on my NetBook with Tumbleweed, though... \Olav -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org