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What’s the actual practical difference between Leap and Tumbleweed? (feddit.uk)

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So I was using Tumbleweed on my old laptop but I got kind of sick of all the updates; I felt like that icon showing I had updates available just had a permanent space on my screen. Every time I refreshed I had at least 200mb of updates to do. So when I got my new laptop I went with Leap instead.

But what’s the actual difference? So the OS only gets updated once a year or so does it? Are smaller releases more forthcoming? What if there’s other packages that get updated? Do I have to wait a year to get the latest version or are they updated more regularly? I’m wondering if I should look at Slowroll as I don’t want to be waiting a year for new features.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Yes they use different repositories and release models. Leap uses a normal versioned release model (like Ubuntu for example) where packages are in a "stable" state and only non-breaking patches and minor updates are available for that release. Tumbleweed is "rolling", which is explained here https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Upgrade_Tumbleweed. With Tumbleweed you are expected to manually update to new snapshots using zypper dup, and it is a bit more work to manage especially for new Linux users. it is also recommended to disable GNOME and KDE's automatic updates, since individually updating packages reduces the benefit of the openQA quality checks for Tumbleweed which depend on snapshots (which appear as new distro versions to zypper). I personally uninstall Gnome Software completely, and I like to use zypper -vvv dup --no-recommends as recommended packages can sometimes add unnecessary bloat to the system.