openSUSE Leap 15.6 Now Planned To Provide More Time For ALP

[szymon_g]

Good. At the moment I wouldn't dare to install Leap on a new computer because the roadmap is so unclear.

most importantly thou: you wouldn't dare to install Leap on a new computer because their ancient kernel 5.14 (even despite thousands of patches) doesn't really support the new hardware very well.

[onlyLinuxLuvUBack]

most importantly thou: you wouldn't dare to install Leap on a new computer because their ancient kernel 5.14 (even despite thousands of patches) doesn't really support the new hardware very well.

let's say you want to use a free os and btrfs, what would be alternative to opensuse leap ?

[Leinad]

most importantly thou: you wouldn't dare to install Leap on a new computer because their ancient kernel 5.14 (even despite thousands of patches) doesn't really support the new hardware very well.

Graphics support is newer than kernel 6.0 and I think, there are backports of Lenovo support from 6.2 or 6.3

[Leinad]

There's also:

• Kubuntu (as you mentioned)
• Mageia (not really LTS [but neither is Leap] but focused on being stable and reliable)
• Debian (though Plasma is not their main focus)
• Alma (but again very Gnome-focused)

edit: although the one thing I really love about Leap is that even though it is stable and uses well-tested packages (same binaries as SLE in fact), it STILL has Snapper built-in! None of the others above does that.

Debian 12 has newer plasma, then Leap 15.5 . Alma has terrible KDE support

[niner]

let's say you want to use a free os and btrfs, what would be alternative to opensuse leap ?

openSUSE Tumbleweed

[pWe00Iri3e7Z9lHOX2Qx]

Debian 12 has newer plasma, then Leap 15.5 . Alma has terrible KDE support

I'm not sure how Debian 12 will have something newer than Plasma 5.27 which is what Leap 15.5 uses. Also Debian has historically been one of the worst distro choices if you want newer KDE releases unless you used Norbert Preining's repos. He helped get things current in his short time as an official Debian contributor, but since he was pushed out it's reasonable to expect Plasma releases to get stale again.

[pWe00Iri3e7Z9lHOX2Qx]

let's say you want to use a free os and btrfs, what would be alternative to opensuse leap ?

Fedora? Unless you mean one of the big distros that also incorporates easy rollbacks utilizing Btrfs, because that's only OpenSUSE options. Some smaller distros with high "hit by bus" factors of disappearing bake this in like the Arch based Garuda Linux.

[Leinad]

I'm not sure how Debian 12 will have something newer than Plasma 5.27 which is what Leap 15.5 uses. Also Debian has historically been one of the worst distro choices if you want newer KDE releases unless you used Norbert Preining's repos. He helped get things current in his short time as an official Debian contributor, but since he was pushed out it's reasonable to expect Plasma releases to get stale again.

Debian 12 has 5.27.5 and Leap 5.27.4, so Debian has slightly newer patch version

[pWe00Iri3e7Z9lHOX2Qx]

Debian 12 has 5.27.5 and Leap 5.27.4, so Debian has slightly newer patch version

This seems like a bit of a distinction without a difference. Debian 12 doesn't even come out until tomorrow. The bump from 5.27.4 to 5.27.5 will hit Leap in a one of the next snapshot builds. Your post made it sound like Debian was at least a major version ahead of Leap.

[Davonious]

Good. At the moment I wouldn't dare to install Leap on a new computer because the roadmap is so unclear.

Yea, It appears OpenSuse (via Richard Brown @ OpenSUSE) agrees with you about the challenges ahead; he calls it "There's a Mountain to Climb". In that linked YouTube link, he has lots of direct questions and uncomfortable points for the community, and he's blunt in saying there's no no real answers yet (or soon).