I've noticed people recommending Tumbleweed and its snapper/btrfs based snapshots as a way to recover if something goes wrong. I wholeheartedly agree with the

I've noticed people recommending Tumbleweed and its snapper/btrfs based snapshots as a way to recover if something goes wrong. I wholeheartedly agree with the recommendation. Few caveats about snapper rollbacks though. First of all, you need grub working to be presented the read only snaptshot boot menu. If an update breaks grub, you'll be out of luck. How likely is this to happen? I don't know. Second, /home is not part of snapshots by default. I would leave this as is. But this means if the update changes something in /home like a config file and you need to rollback, you'll end up in an inconsistent state. I believe this is what happened when people upgraded to plasma6 from within an existing plasma session. They could not rollback and fix the issue. In my experience of a few years tumbleweed has been really stable until very recently. The plasma6 issue in my opinion was huge. Should never have happened. I belive they added extra checks into openQA to catch this class of errors in the future. However, if I am to speculate, I don't understand how not even one person from the whole org has not tried to upgrade plasma6 from within plasma and notice this issue. We've had another issue last week or so that hit users of a particular manufacturer's gpu. I don't remember which, but it's not intel which I am on. Last year there was an issue where they broke up networking packages in such a way that if install recommended packages was disabled, you'd lose your wifi. (install recommends is enabled by default for tumbleweed. Fair enough. But at the time it was not enabled for the variant called MicroOS.) By the way, people who are considering Tumbleweed, can also look into Slowroll, which is tumbleweed at some point in time. It does not update as frequently as tumbleweed but as far as I know a slowroll update does not signify anything like a point in time were the packages were most stable or a security issue was just fixed. (By extension, you'll be less likely to have a broken system but also less likely to get security updates on day one. Something to keep in mind.) Lest it sound like I am not recommending Tumbleweed, I'd like to explicitly recommend it. It really is great.