As others said, that is part of the fun of rolling release.
If you enjoy openSUSE, what you want is their fixed release, openSUSE Leap. Theses are EOL in 24 months, but there are some built-in migration tools to help you upgrade to the next version when it comes out.
Yes, thank you, but when it comes to these point releases, I don’t want to have to practically reinstall the OS just for an update, if that makes sense? I appreciate the reply though, seriously! I just wanted to see what others had to say. :/
I mean its all just packages under the hood. Its not that technically different than any other system update. For openSUSE, you run zypper dup instead of zypper patch.
I might just be dumb, but what I gathered when I was reading about openSUSE Tumbleweed is that a zypper dup should be the only command I need to worry about when updating the system. After looking at this for Leap, I think the way they handle them on Leap is a little extra for my taste, if that makes sense?
As others said, that is part of the fun of rolling release.
If you enjoy openSUSE, what you want is their fixed release, openSUSE Leap. Theses are EOL in 24 months, but there are some built-in migration tools to help you upgrade to the next version when it comes out.
Remember to back up your data!
Yes, thank you, but when it comes to these point releases, I don’t want to have to practically reinstall the OS just for an update, if that makes sense? I appreciate the reply though, seriously! I just wanted to see what others had to say. :/
I mean its all just packages under the hood. Its not that technically different than any other system update. For openSUSE, you run
zypper dupinstead ofzypper patch.(Section 12.1.4 https://doc.opensuse.org/documentation/leap/startup/html/book-startup/cha-update-osuse.html)
Note: I have never personally tried this nor used OpenSUSE ;)
I see.
I might just be dumb, but what I gathered when I was reading about openSUSE Tumbleweed is that a zypper dup should be the only command I need to worry about when updating the system. After looking at this for Leap, I think the way they handle them on Leap is a little extra for my taste, if that makes sense?