29.04.2021
Since this date I only had to roll back (BTRFS) two times.
Tumbleweed
stat / | awk '/Birth: /{print $2}'
2019-11-02
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Have a dual boot desktop … one is TW running since late 2018. The other boot is Leap 15.6, running since its Beta.
It might be worth the slowness with BTRFS then 
But suppose you have to roll back because an upgrade broke your system.
Whats next? Never upgrade?
@StaffyStar Never had to rollback here on Tumbleweed, btrfs and no snapper on that last install…
I usually only reinstall when I get new hardware, so my openSUSE installs are from
2015-02-10
2020-07-29
2023
Only occasionally something breaks, but that does not need a reinstall to fix.
Don’t get your hopes up, I have multiple experiences of the contrary.
Writing from my everyday laptop on EXT4 (so no snapper):
bruno@LT-B:~> stat / | awk '/Birth: /{print $2}'
2021-01-30
Ran Leap before, but was tired of the old Gnome. Never had to reinstall because of an upgrade, but no fancy SW or games installed here so if you go pretty “standard” you have good chances.
Occasionally had to downgrade Nvidia or boot the previous kernel waiting a few days for a fix, but that is expected with a rolling distro.
BTW, began hearing from friends that had to call at pc service sthops to recover Win11 upgrades…
stat / | awk '/Birth: /{print $2,$3}'
2024-08-02 19:30
I switched to Tumbleweed (default setup with btrfs and snapper, running GNOME as I always do) on the 02 August 2024, and I’ve been running it ever since.
It’s a rolling release, so some quirk might show up every once in a while, but overall I think I’d classify the distro as being stable.
Tumbleweed is just what I was looking for - it has reasonably up to date software, while providing reasonable stability and reliability. Moving to any other distro would make me have to sacrifice one of its qualities. Tumbleweed is just a good, all-around balanced distro.
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To be technically correct, Tumbleweed is not “stable” at all, since everyday or so some pieces get a new version and if you need a specific version for whatever reason you are in trouble.
But it sure is “reasonably reliable” or even more than that, thanks to openQA filtering out most troubled snapshots.
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Hello everyone. Tumbleweed with the necessary precautions and the expertise of many of you, is a reliable OS. I have used tw for a long time and the only problems that emerged were only due to my incompetence. My TW have always broken when trying to customize the system following guides on the web. I do not have nvidia, so I am facilitated, but I have never had major problems with dup. I had to give up tw only because, for my needs, slowroll was more suitable.
Mine (tumbleweed) since 2016-08-11 on Dell laptop [running well], heavily used, and occasionally needed fixing after updates.
So - I reinstall a lot for no apparent reason – no issues – mainly just to do so. I guess to have a clean slate and test out the new releases to make sure they behave correctly. 
All are TW
Desktop - a little over 1 year - this may change soon since I need to replace the drive.
Laptop 1 - 6 months
Laptop 2 - 2 months
sad to hear. But I suspected it wasnt as good as advertised.
michu@SUSEL:~> stat / | awk '/Birth: /{print $2,$3}'
2018-04-10 19:22:41.095995347
Heheee. Time is flying…
I’ve migrated my OS since Leap 42 [???] (HDD > SSD > NVME - Slowroll now), but now I’m considering reinstall. There is few reasons for this like below.
- I have some errors related to BTRFS on / partition (for years) what prevents me to switch from mbrboot to uefiboot (just before reinstall I’ll try to fix it just for ‘sport’ and educational reasons but even if I manage to fix it I will switch to… (check below)). I can still live without eufiboot so I did not reinstalled yet.
- I do not like the way GTK is following… all my life the first choice of DE was XFCE with GTK but now… some time ago I’ve upgraded my monitor to 4k and I think KDE+QT (LXqt also) handles it better (not mentioning handling wayland which I can still live without but eventually jump from X is irreversible)
- Probably something I don’t remember now…
…so probably sun I’m going to stop resurrecting my old beloved OS and I’m going to follow the ‘windows mantra’ - reinstall.
Home server:
New laptop:
My previous laptop is a Lenovo T530, it was running OpenSUSE since I got it. I can check tomorrow, but I guess it would be since somewhere in 2013.
With a desktop, this is truly impressive! I can tell my daughter we have this guy that been running Opensuse all her life 
He-he… I actually started running SUSE Linux (as it was known) some time in the mid 2000’s. I worked for Novell at the time, who bought SUSE, then thought about migrating everyone to Linux desktops around the time they acquired Ximian.
It was a failed project for most of the staff, but for the techies like me it became a way
of life.
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My old reliable ThinkPad T430 has been running Tumbleweed since January 16, 2023 with absolutely no problems whatsoever. It was running Leap before that and I decided to move to Tumbleweed because of “why not?”
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I’m usually not one that keeps an installation for long. Just because I like looking around. But I’ve had Tumbleweed for about a year, and then changed to Pop!_OS (they really need to change that name, it’s horrible to type) because I wanted to have a look at the Cosmic DE. So I ran that for a couple of months. And it is becoming an awesome DE! And I think you can install it on Tumblweed as well now (it’s still in alpha though).
Anyway… I wanted to experience what MicroOS is like, which is a versio of Tumbleweed Have been running that now for… let me see… 9 days LOL
I hope there will be a Cosmic version of it in the future. (and they just call it MicroOS Cosmic)