openSUSE Tumbleweed

Score9.1 out of 10

5 Reviews and Ratings

Community insights

TrustRadius Insights for openSUSE Tumbleweed are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, third party data sources.

Recommendations

Users highly recommend openSUSE Tumbleweed for its accessibility and ease of use, making it a great choice for beginners. They suggest that this operating system is a good starting point for those new to Linux. Additionally, users think openSUSE Tumbleweed is a good operating system for both developers and regular users. They appreciate the availability of tools provided by openSUSE Tumbleweed. Furthermore, users believe openSUSE Tumbleweed is essential for verifying software packages and using authentic software from unknown sources. However, if extra stability is desired, users suggest choosing openSUSE Leap instead.

Reviews

3 Reviews

Best choice for developers and desktop users to work.

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

April 11, 2023

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Using openSUSE Tumbleweed as a host for cluster in processing data on spark engine, It is helping to easily use ssh to reach the cluster and submit the jobs and also to track the logs.

Pros

uses hardware too wisely.
easy to setup machines.
easy to ssh the machines hosted.

Cons

Software packages are not always the latest version.
Some are following EU and non-GPL regulations very strict.
another distro that fell victim to systemd.

Likelihood to Recommend

Good to host applications which needs good utilization of hardware like distributed processing like spark, Less appropriate where have to impose EU and non-GPL regulations

Verified User

Engineer in Engineering (501-1000 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

openSUSE Tumbleweed: latest and greatest software forever

Rating: 10 out of 10

September 14, 2022

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use openSUSE Tumbleweed for development and hosting systems which require latest software versions which are not yet available in openSUSE Leap. With Tumbleweed you install a server and you never have to make version to version upgrades - you just make routine system package updates and you always have the latest software versions. Forever.

Pros

Latest package versions
Never need to make version to version upgrades
Works stable

Cons

Sometimes after system update old software configuration does not work

Likelihood to Recommend

openSUSE Tumbleweed is well suited for hosting fast developing systems and application Docker images, but if you are going to host applications which does not change for years, you'll get in trouble after some time, because system packages will be newer than your legacy application can understand. And then your application will start to fail.

Verified User

Administrator in Information Technology (1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

openSUSE Tumbleweed keeps rolling, never breaks

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

September 13, 2022

Use 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.

Verified User

Engineer in Engineering (1-10 employees)

Vetted Review

5 years of experience

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