Liam Proven composed on 2021-04-16 06:16 (UTC-0400):
> I run openSUSE Tumbleweed on my machine in the office. I have been
> working from home for over a year now. I think that when I finally
> return to the office, it will be easier to reformat the machine and
> start over than to update a year-old rolling release that has been
> booted about 3 times in a year.
I have 24 64 bit PCs with Tumbleweed installed. Several have more than one TW
installed, so the installation count may be closer to 30. I have 4 32 bit with
TW
updated since Jan 1, 6 updated last in 2020, 2 updated last in 2019. IME,
updating
TW via zypper after 3-4 months since last prior update has never been a problem.
Waiting more than 6-8 months hasn't been terribly unusual either. Only 12 64 bit
PCs have had TW upgraded since 1 March. Only recently did I first have a problem
updating a TW last updated more than a year prior. That was because of a change
in
compression used for rpms. Offline update cleaned that one up.
All that said, I wouldn't use zypper in the foreseeable future to upgrade one a
year since last because of that same change in compression, but I won't hesitate
to do it offline. The tweaks I make take longer to implement after doing a fresh
installation than the time required to upgrade.
Oh, and I don't ever use VMs except for using OS/2 to run DOS apps.
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