I use Linux Mint. I would like to switch to OpenSuse (Leap or Tumbleweed), but I read that SUSE has officially asked openSUSE to stop using its name as a brand for the distribution, so OpenSuse will change its name and maybe it will not even be supported by Suse anymore. IMPORTANT: I am worried about having to install OpenSuse and then in 1 or 2 years have to uninstall it because it might not be possible to upgrade to the next version. We don't know if the operating system will undergo major changes when OpenSuse changes its name, so is there a risk that it might not be possible to upgrade to the next new version (the one with the new name)? I would not like to install OpenSuse now and then in 1 or 2 years have to install the new operating system.

1. What will be the future of OpenSuse?

2. If I install OpenSuse and after 1 or 2 years the new distribution without the name Suse comes out which will also be very different eventually, then I will not be able to switch to the new version because it would practically be a new different distribution? I am worried about having to install OpenSuse and then in 1 or 2 years have to uninstall it because it might not be possible to upgrade to the next version. We don't know if the operating system will undergo major changes when OpenSuse changes its name, so is there a risk that it might not be possible to upgrade to the next new version (the one with the new name)? I would not like to install OpenSuse now and then in 1 or 2 years have to install the new operating system.

3. Should I install it now or should I wait?

4. Will OpenSuse (or whatever it will be called in the future) still be supported by Suse?z

I am on leap and was happy with this distro will I have to distrohop again ?

I'll admit that I'm new to the Suse ecosystem as a whole, having come over from Arch for my daily and Ubuntu for my business servers, but I fell in love with the concept of Tumbleweed and Leap because I wanted more stability than self-built Arch and Canonical could provide.

Leap being attached at the hip to SLE gives a level of guaranteed stability that very few other offerings in the Linux world have, and while Tumbleweed is at the bleeding edge, my experience with both is that as a desktop user, you don't actually notice too much difference except the constant nagging for updates on Tumbleweed. This seemed like a great choice to consolidate my operations under a single distro all around.

That said, I recently stumbled upon a Low Tech Linux video from October of 2023 and and It's FOSS blog post (links below). In the video, they explain that SLE is being abandoned in 2024 after the next service pack in favor of moving to a headless system called ALP for containerized servers. This was seen coming for some time and it isn't a surprise that SLE 15 needed a successor, however, they also state that Suse will no longer be in any way developing a desktop-based operating system and that SLED will be dead after the EOL of SLE Service Pack 7, and that Leap is going down with it after the 15.6 release. On the openSUSE side of things, they're canning Leap and replacing it with a rolling release based on Tumbleweed called Slowroll positioned a few months behind the bleeding edge, but that the entire system, like Tumbleweed, will be compiled and updated automatically through automated build tools.

Does this mean Suse is done with desktop branches altogether, or will they incorporate Slowroll in some way on the commercial side? If not, does it imply openSUSE Tumbleweed and Slowroll will now just be purely a community project without commercial backing? It feels like this shift might break away from the stability reputation SLE/openSUSE has had for so long and even beyond reputation, will it actually see a hit by losing its backing from the enterprise arm? Additionally, will running a production server on Slowroll actually be stable enough to trust in production or what is the upgrade path from Leap 15 Server to something else?

Maybe I'm reading all of this information wrong, can anyone clarify? I hate to have just made a full switch on all devices within the last few months just to have it all EOL in 2 years. Please tell me I'm taking it all too literal or reading all of this wrong. Hopefully I'm just overreacting

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6apH3v13Mo
https://news.itsfoss.com/opensuse-leap-replacement/
https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Slowroll

Hello people.

I don't know if this has been talked about more times around here, although I suppose so.

Are you worried about the future of openSUSE depending on SUSE and that it is bought by another company that is not very interested in maintaining the openSUSE project?

I am moving between two rolling distributions. Tumbleweed and Arch Linux, both rolling but very different in their operation. And one of the things that keeps me from going completely into Tumbleweed is precisely this kind of thing. Situations that on Community-maintained systems, like Arch or Debian, you know won't happen.

What is your opinion?

Greetings, Juan.