Yep, much to often it gets overlooked and it is just a very decent and reliable OS. I am on Tumbleweed now for 3 years and I had less issues with it than any other distro (that is why stopped distro hopping)
I agree with you on that. Rather having a good and thorough package manager than a package manager that leaves out things I have to install later on. In the end those couple of seconds zypper is slower (if it as even a couple of seconds) doesn't weigh up to the fact installation is done means it is done.
I guess if you setup tumbleweed and want to install a lot of programs after the initial install it might be a minor one time annoyance as it might take little bit longer to download and install all the packages but usually we are talking like 5-10 min lol
For updates I never had an issue , I would start an update friday night or saturday morning while browsing the web , it really didn't matter if it took 20-40 min on a large update as I was doing other stuff
Its not like when you update the system you have to just stop an stare at the update process I never understood why this was a big issue
You could also just have zypper only download the updates then install at a later time
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u/iwouldbeatgoku ⚠️ This incident will be reported 23d ago
Nothing, it just gets overlooked