Can we live with openSUSE Tumbleweed?

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SteamOS 3.0 will have an immutable filesystem - a first for arch? — During the Steam Deck Development live steam, Valve finally gave us some good news and said that SteamOS 3.0 will be generally available for everyone to install on their computers. They also revealed that SteamOS 3.0 will have an immutable root file system to prevent unauthorized access and use PipeWire for audio.
Greg’s Company Buys Ads openSUSE Search Results — "Hey, @openSUSE have you been seeing a drop in downloads recently? I might know why..."
They did this to AlmaLinux at the end of July.
AlmaLinux AMA
Setting up a containerized environment - openSUSE User Documentation Project
Using the Linode Graphical Shell (Glish)
How to switch from OpenSUSE Leap to Tumbleweed?
Transactional Updates | Administration Guide | SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP1
The Transactional Update Guide
Manpage for transactional-update — Transactional-update updates the system in a transactional way; this means updates are atomic, so either the patches are fully applied or nothing is changed. The update does not influence the running system and it can be rolled back. To activate the changes, the system needs to be rebooted. To achieve this transactional-update is using Btrfs' snapshot mechanism, combined with the default distribution tools
YaST Online Update
OpenSUSE System Updates
Snapper rollback with btrfs
openSUSE/transactional-update — Do transactional updates on openSUSE/SUSE Linux Enterprise products with btrfs, snapshots and rollback.
Open Build Service
OpenSUSE Conference 2017
Post that explains some of the drawbacks of transaction updates
Zypper cheat sheet VERY handy and recommend it
JupiterGarage.com
Pick: mp4grep — Command-line tool that searches audio/video files.
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432: Three Tumbleweed Temptations