opensuse decided to go back on their thing of being 30 version numbers ahead and the next leap version is gonna be 15

its a bloody good thing their release cycle is so fucking slow otherwise it'd be worrying when they actually neared to version 42, fuckin going "shit lads what do we do we've already done leap 42 because we fucked it back in 2015"

the reasoning behind why they went all the way to version 42 after version 13 is amusing and its entirely because they were basing what wouldve been version 14 off suse linux enterprise...except sle at that point was at version 12,so they just went "uhhh shit hold on"

@puppy i wonder if that was the real reasoning behind the first rolling-release software, just don't bother with coherent numbering

@mallaidh could be that but also could be a case for trying to upkeep their wish for being a big time linux distro that people just go to bc of its self proclaimed goodness, considering rolling release distros have only grown in popularity as of recent thanks to stuff like manjaro

@mallaidh i cant speak for how good opensuse is since its one of the few distros ive not actually tried yet, but im considering giving it a whirl at some time since its not as immediately horrifying as shit like gentoo lol

@mallaidh tis definitely the lesser spoken of "big lad" in the linux distro world. been around for fuckin ages, yet nowhere near as popular as the others. anyone you come across who uses it will speak nothing but wonders of it.

@puppy well i wasn't as much of a fan of the system snapshots filling up my drive and having to go through yast to slowly delete them so i could update, and the ethernet port just not working

there used to be a little switch in yast to solve the snapper problem, but it was gobbled up by systemd and i couldn't be bothered to go through how systemd did it