Carl Spitzer {L Juno} wrote:
I know I should have done the upgrade long ago but work has been crazy.
I have one laptop still 15.2 which apparently needs to upgrade to 15.3 and then to 15.4 .
I've found that zypper perfectly manages to do a dist upgrade skipping versions, and that even online (change repo links and 'zypper dup')
I also have a neighbors old Gateway which is 64 bit which could go the 15.4 route directly or Tumbleweed.
My prefered environment is Tumbleweed, but one has to be prepared for HUGE update bandwidth and regular reboots.
What I am wondering with all this complexity should I just switch to Tumbleweed rolling release and skip all the extra work.
What is your experience with either???
While I prefer TW, I wouldn't call it less work. If you have more extra repos active, it can happen that not all of them are in sync regarding dependencies, and you get conflicts. Nothing serious if you have some experience already. I use Leap at work, where uptime and constant user experience is important, and used it at home when I still only had a 6Mbit link. Now all my home machines are TW. No experience on my side with kde 3 and evolution...