Tumbleweed offers a cutting-edge rolling-release distro, but with automated integration testing, and if an update breaks something, you can roll it back with Snapper thanks to Btrfs. OpenSUSE's two offerings, Tumbleweed and Leap, cover the main bases that most people might want. We installed the beta in a virtual machine, and looking at the package lists in YaST, among the desktops on offer are Budgie 10.6, Enlightenment 25.4, KDE 5.27.2, LXQt 1.2, Mate 1.26, Sway 1.6.1 and Reg FOSS desk fave Xfce version 4.18. However, Leap is a much bigger distro than SLE, so while SLE only offers the GNOME desktop – the Leap 15.5 beta includes GNOME version 41 – Leap has a wide range of desktop offerings which are rather more current. Despite identical base kernel version number, the kernel adds number of latest upstream backports which amount to some individual 19,000 patches. Linux Kernel 5.14.21 version will remain the same as that of Leap 15.4. So this distro has the core of a stable, slowly-moving enterprise distro, and as the beta's release notes say: So that means that the basis of Leap 15.5 is also the basis of SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP 5, which is also in beta testing. Point releases of Leap come out roughly once per year, and since version 15.3 its code base has been synchronized with SLE. This is a relatively modest step over the existing version 15.4, as you might expect from an enterprise distro, but desktop users get to enjoy new features all the same. The openSUSE project also recently released a beta version of the next release of its stable-release distro, openSUSE Leap 15.5.
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