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Linux middle ground?
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this post was submitted on 25 Sep 2024
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Opensuse tumbleweed. The packages go through a testing process unlike Fedora AFAIK.
Several months ago I installed Tumbleweed on a VM just for kicks and giggles. A week later it refused to install updates at all due to some weird conflict, even though the system was vanilla to the goddamn wallpaper. In a week I try upgrading and magically the conflict is gone. I'll be honest, this was my only experience with Tumbleweed and it managed to have its update system broken in the meantime. I've never had anything close to this on Debian Unstable lol.
Not hating on Tumbleweed, on the contrary - I have been testing it for quite a while to see if it's as good as they say. But it doesn't look like a middle ground between Arch and Debian. At least in my short experience.
Was that updating with "zypper dup"? I've heard going through discover or zypper update isn't the recommended way strictly speaking, so its worth mentioning.
It was a kde update centre which is installed by default and suggests updates when they're available. But zypper was also failing.
Ah okay, I'm not sure then.