See, i like rolling release patterns for being up to date, but at the same time i like stable patterns for reliability (but that depends on QA). So slowroll seems like a good inbetween, however does slowroll have good QA regarding things not breaking? What are your experiences regarding it, as it is a fairly new thing?
t. curious but unsure
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Slowroll is based on Tumbleweed, with critical updates coming through as they need to, and larger updates taking place regularly. Installed with btrfs so you can roll back if there is an issue, it’s a good option for a rolling distribution.
It’s not really that new - been around for over a year. But generally speaking, as it follows TW, it’s going to be very similar to using TW, but on an update/release cadence that’s slower.
As with anything that is relatively bleeding edge, whether it works for you depends a lot on how you use it. Rolling releases typically get updated libraries, so if you’re installing stuff from outside the repos, it can be a problem because third-party software is looking for older libraries than are provided by the repos. You can work around that by using tools like distrobox to install those packages in an environment that has more stable libraries, or using AppImages or Flatpaks to install them, so the libraries are all self-contained.
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SR has been solid for me the last 2 years. 
Large feature updates around the 10th of each month. 
Small bug fixes trickle in as they come. 
The few system breaking bugs have all come from the kernel and few annoyances from Gnome. But I can’t recall SR itself breaking the system in these 2 years… 
Thanks to @bmwiedemann for maintaining such an awesome flavor of openSUSE. 
And TW devs and users for fixing things before they hit SR! 
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Yes, IMHO it can be recommended.
Slowroll is Tumbleweed with some delay. That means that immediate problems that might bring Tumbleweed to a halt, and that are typically fixed within a few days, won’t ever hit you; you just receive the new version of the packages that already include the fix. The bump in the road is already smoothed over by the time you get there.
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I’ve been using Slowroll for a over a year now and can only echo the thoughts already shared above. I enjoy its stability and slower pace of updates. Other than that just like Tumbleweed. Works well on my 6 year old laptop (It was dual boot, but I blew W10 away before it went EOL).
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Yeah, SR users f.e. weren’t hit by the ddcutil / udev issues.
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