Tumbleweed is a fantastic distro and, in fact, the distro that made me settle in, stoping the distrohop. However, we must recognize that the openSuse way is a little different from many other distros, and the packaging options while vast, require more steps to get to than debian or arch, for example. New users might be thrown off by more commands needing sudo (to manager printers for example) or the codecs installation ( which is so easy that is almost a no braine, but still).
Overall openSuse became my favourite distro. My install of tumbleweed is now going for 3 years of everyday use, from gaming to image editing, all this without having the patented MS Windows bit rot. In all this time, only once I needed to do a rollback on a update. It is stable as a rock.
Would I recommend it to someone totally new? It’s hard to. The specifics of openSuse sometimes create some barries to new users. The file system (btrfs, by default), the codecs, the extra safe sudo policy, etc…
Now would I recommend it for a better acquainted linux user? Abso-fucking-lutely, best rolling realease you can find. Updates are relatively bleeding edge, and stable. And even if they aren’t, just roll back and go on with your day.
Tumbleweed is a fantastic distro and, in fact, the distro that made me settle in, stoping the distrohop. However, we must recognize that the openSuse way is a little different from many other distros, and the packaging options while vast, require more steps to get to than debian or arch, for example. New users might be thrown off by more commands needing sudo (to manager printers for example) or the codecs installation ( which is so easy that is almost a no braine, but still).
Overall openSuse became my favourite distro. My install of tumbleweed is now going for 3 years of everyday use, from gaming to image editing, all this without having the patented MS Windows bit rot. In all this time, only once I needed to do a rollback on a update. It is stable as a rock.
Would I recommend it to someone totally new? It’s hard to. The specifics of openSuse sometimes create some barries to new users. The file system (btrfs, by default), the codecs, the extra safe sudo policy, etc…
Now would I recommend it for a better acquainted linux user? Abso-fucking-lutely, best rolling realease you can find. Updates are relatively bleeding edge, and stable. And even if they aren’t, just roll back and go on with your day.