[orca-list] openSUSE, Tumbleweed, GNOME, and Orca

[Robert Cole <rkcole72984 gmail com>]

Hello, everyone.

I have been kind of at a rough point in searching for a production 
distribution for awhile now. I want to keep up with accessibility 
improvements, but I want to eliminate the six-month upgrade routine 
mainly because, due to my current circumstances, I just do not have the 
time to deal with it.

I now that, in the next few weeks, the Sonar Project is going to release 
a Sonar version based on Manjaro Linux, an Arch derivative. Also, 
openSUSE 13.1 was recently released. both of these distributions offer a 
rolling release solution. Manjaro is a rolling release distribution "out 
of the box" whereas openSUSE has to have its "Tumbleweed" repositories 
enabled in order to be used as a rolling release system.

I would love to work with a vanilla Arch installation, but (once again) 
I have some serious time restraints, and I am not the best at fixing 
things if I break them. There is also the very critical fact that I only 
have ONE computer in my home to work with. If I mess it up, I mess it up 
for everyone.

I have narrowed my selection of a production distribution to openSUSE, 
Manjaro, and Arch. I just want to ask the list here if there are any 
openSUSE "Tumbleweed" users out there. If so, how is your experience in 
keeping your systemup-to-date in regards to accessibility? When I mean 
"up-to-date", I am referring to stable releases (e.g. GNOME 3.6, 3.8, 
3.10, etc).

I hate to say it, but one of my faults is that I have a difficult time 
making decisions because I am very meticulous concerning all of the 
details. I want to do my best to make the best decision.

Please bear in mind that I am not asking, "Which distro should I use?" 
From my research, I have come to three candidates: openSUSE, Manjaro, 
and Arch. I guess if I could generalize my question even further, I 
would phrase it like this: If one wants to keep up with accessibility 
improvements (e.g. Orca and the GNOME Shell Magnifier in my case), but 
one wants to avoid the six-month upgrade rutine, is a rollign release 
distribution a safe, efficient, and effective way to go?

Any thoughts or input would be very much appreciated.

PS: I know that similar questions have been asked in the past, and I am 
very sorry for being redundant. It is just that I want to get a 
distribution installed and stick with it; I want to keep up with 
[stable] releases of all of the accessibility components. When I do the 
upgrade process every six months, I have some in my household who become 
rather impaitent because they want to use the computer. <smile> That is 
the disadvantage of having only one computer. I used to have a laptop, 
but it reached its end of life months ago, and I just cannot afford 
another machine.

Thanks again, everyone.