openSUSE Tumbleweed keeps rolling, never breaks
Rating: 9 out of 10
IncentivizedUse Cases and Deployment Scope
openSUSE Tumbleweed is used as a workstation product for developers. It is suitable for us as it offers a wide range of software packages, tested, and close to the latest release.
It allows us to stay on top of the latest hardware support and also make it simple and painless to develop containerised workloads, in comparison to alternative operating systems.
Pros
- Frequent software updates
- Simplified rollback in case of upgrade problems
- Great container-based development support
Cons
- Frequent package updates sometimes break proprietary programs
Likelihood to Recommend
openSUSE Tumbleweed is best suited to developers, system administrators, and other power users. Beginning users looking for stability and less-frequent package updates will likely be served by alternatives such as openSUSE Leap.
