So far I've installed and updated Tumbleweed and at the moment I'm waiting for the other packages to install (VLC, K3B, etc).
It does seem like I would have gone with Tumbleweed had I thought about it, but since I haven't been able to preform any real testing, I can't say anything for sure right now.
Also, while I was browsing around yesterday, I saw the upcoming release of openSUSE is called "Leap" which will have the SUSE Linux Enterprises (SEL) at its core and allow security updates directly from them. In other words, I have another version of openSUSE to test out once it's downloaded and I've finished my testing for Tumbleweed.
Oh, one thing I forgot to mention with the first Manjaro Linux post is that I figured out what the weird "fourth" button (the one second from the left) on the volume/user/etc menu is. It's meant for devices with accelerometers, in other words, it's to allow/lock screen orientation. I figured this out when I updated from GNOME 3.14.x to 3.16.2, as the circular arrow was replaced with a tilted rectangle with a curved arrow, and when I clicked on it, the arrow became a padlock. Mystery solved.
Back to Tumbleweed, I just tried a video file in VLC and it gave me the error message that it could not decode h264; I looked in
zypper and found there weren't any h264 codecs at all. Looks like I'm going to have to add the repository from Packman and test again.When I booted into Manjaro, I saw that I had GNOME 3.16.2 and not 3.16.3 that I updated to on Melty, which gave me problems. As much as I wanted to update it and test to see if it broke on Triela, the Tumbleweed testing came first (kinda hard to update GRUB if the target system isn't usable. Sure I could use
mhwd-chroot and do it, but that requires booting into a live version of Manjaro to do - so why take the risk if it will just complicate things?Tried VLC again in Tumbleweed with the same message, but this time,
h264enc was in the repository. Oh how long it's been since I've had to do this sort of thing... I should pull up caf's guide, but at the same time, I don't really want to. Luckily, it worked without any problems.Decided to try an mp3 and I'm glad I did, as supposedly the plugin wasn't installed, though zypper tells me something different, I decided to install
gstreamer-0_10-plugins-fluendo_mp3, but it didn't seem to help, so I tried removing pullin-fluendo-mp3 which also didn't work. I then noticed that gstreamer-0_10-plugins-fluendo_mp3 replaced gstreamer-0_1-fluendo_mp3, so i reinstalled gstreamer-0_1-fluendo_mp3, but that also didn't work.I decided to used caf4926's guide (from 12.3, but it's not like the packages are any different), and after getting it all installed, I was able to get mp3 playback.
So yes, Tumbleweed is quite viable, but as I mentioned twice before now, I'd rather yaourt than have to go through the trouble doing it "manually" (plus, I'd probably have to put some extra effort into FreeFileSync, since it's meant for 13.2 atm). So with this, I conclude Tumbleweed's test, and now I move onto updating Manjaro.
It took a bit longer than I wanted for Manjaro to update, but I was able to reboot back into it without any problems. What's weird is that the screen orientation button has reverted to the circular arrow... Since I know what it is, it won't bother me any.
I suppose I'll stick with GNOME on Triela for now, since I don't feel like going through all the hassle to reinstall/reconfigure Manjaro... I might be able to install XFCE and remove GNOME (I found instructions for going from XFCE to GNOME on Manjaro's wiki), but I think a reinstall would be less of a headache to be honest.
Tomorrow I will test openSUSE Leap 42.1 Milestone 1, since I'm still waiting on the download.
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