What does the gecko say? Okay, so, here we are, a review of openSUSE Tumbleweed rolling release distribution, Plasma edition, tested in a multi-boot setup on an AMD-processor laptop with Windows and Linux, covering installation and post-install usage, including smart partitioning defaults, noisy and slow boot process, good look and feel, small customization, average font quality, complicated software management - missing icons, problems with verified and unverified third-party applications, mix of RPM packages and Flatpaks, chain of trust concept, issues installing downloaded packages, duplication of sources, duplication of functionality in Discover and YaST, no option to buy software, no real application store, and regressions in comparison to Linux packaging from ten years ago, additional YaST limitations, everyday use, hardware compatibility, stability, battery life, various bugs and quirks, and more. Take a look. https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/opensuse-tumbleweed-kde.html Cheers, Mrk
You missed talking about one of the main reasons many nerds use it over some other distros which is that it comes by default with BTRFS snapshot configured out of the box. So, if an update breaks something you can rollback rather easily. It's recommended to never use software center (Discover in this case) for system updates in Tumbleweed and also avoid installing software if possible but then again, they push Tumbleweed with Discover installed and don't warn the user about avoiding it so the user should not be blamed if something goes wrong. Arch's archinstaller script for example doesn't install any software center and the last time I checked, it even warned me about the potential issue it may create when I installed Discover and opened it the first time. openSUSE also doesn't come with many of the required media codecs installed. You need to add the Packman repository to install codecs. Installing codecs could be avoided by installing media players from Flatpak or Snap. Your review is a fair one and ultimately a rolling release distro is not for the average users, it's for nerds only. Tumbleweed = Relatively stable rolling release distro with BTRFS snapshots that is easier to install and in general requires less maintenance compared to something like, Arch.
