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Is Slowroll as stable as Tumbleweed yet (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 week ago by FarraigePlaisteach@lemmy.world to c/opensuse@lemmy.world

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I prefer LTS releases usually so Tumbleweed doesn’t suit me. Slowroll sounds doable but I see it’s still experimental. Is it as reliable as Tumbleweed?

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[–] lemmy697b@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Recently, Gnome Extensions integration is suddenly broken on Slowroll after a zypper dup.
I have to manually install gnome-browser-connector; in contrast, no intervention is needed on Tumbleweed.

Meanwhile, Slowroll is still on Gnome 47, which has no compatibility issue at this point, while Tumbleweed causes some Gnome extensions to be disabled because they haven't caught up with the API changes yet.

That said, they are still one of the top rolling distros which will save your setup/customization time in the long run.

So, you probably have to pick your poison.

[–] FarraigePlaisteach@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

That’s helpful, thanks. As long as they’re more or less equally stable then I might go ahead with Slowroll.

[–] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

purely anecdotal, but I tried it last month, and an update seemed to bork the nvidia driver, so I figured it wasn't ready for me yet, and went to mint.

I suspect it'd have been fine with open source drivers though.

[–] FarraigePlaisteach@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

Thanks. I appreciate that. I'll likely be using integrated graphics so I might be fine for that situation.

[–] reseller_pledge609@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's been a few months, but it just seems to lose itself every now and then. Runs fine for a while and then a random update just screws something up. This has happened to me a few times now, but again it's been a while since my last test.

Hopefully someone else can give you some more relevant and up-to-date information.

[–] FarraigePlaisteach@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Thanks for that. Have the problems been recoverable, or did you have to reinstall afterwards?

[–] reseller_pledge609@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I'm a noob, so I always ended up just reinstalling.

[–] FarraigePlaisteach@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

Fair. I was the same in the beginning too.