opi VS tumbleweed-cli

This is incorrect. It also installs a set list of packages.

Have you looked into OPI? This allows you to easily search and install community packages from the Open Build System similarly to how it is with working with yay on Arch. It very likely does not contain things like git packages or fonts but it can be pretty useful for packages like ckb-next and since it pulls from the OBS it is always guaranteed to be a binary, no compilation necessary

As of this writing, opi performs the following operations behind the curtains (see here for reference):

opi will implement a workaround in https://github.com/openSUSE/opi/pull/120 which will force the ffmpeg version on tumbleweed to be >=5.

OPI is your friend. You don't have to update every day...once a week or so is fine. Set up multiversion for kernels. A lot of times if a vendor offers a Fedora RPM and not openSUSE, the Fedora RPM will work fine. If you are using Nvidia, wait to update kernels... that's all I can think of. Use and update the wiki as needed, it's a good resource, but can get outdated.

Yeah I'm pretty sure it's using Packman https://github.com/openSUSE/opi

For more information https://github.com/openSUSE/opi

OPI is also useful for finding other packages that aren't in the regular repos

The easiest way to install software is with OPI, you can also search with Zypper or YaST. Generally, if you can find an RPM file built for Fedora, you can install it on Tumbleweed as well - I'm sure there are exceptions.

There is a third controversial option: tumbleweed-cli which is helping to move from snapshot to snapshot. To be honest I'm not aware of the status.

Would this work? https://github.com/boombatower/tumbleweed-cli

There is also https://github.com/boombatower/tumbleweed-cli which i like very much when using tumbleweed

If the persistent updates or update notifications are the only problem for a switch to TW, then there's always the installable package 'tumbleweed-cli' (you can find it in the repos) more infos. https://github.com/boombatower/tumbleweed-cli With this you can set a specific opensuse snapshot. This should only be used for updates, not for rollbacks, that's what snapper is for. As far as I know monthly updating is recommended (at least).

A certain number of older snapshots is kept on the mirrors and can be chosen with tumbleweed-cli.

Jesus. It's not that zypper isn't a good tool, it's that tumbleweed-cli uses the snapshot versions, and is actually designed for this exact use case. See this thread and the comment by u/bommbatower for more information.

I use tumbleweed-cli to upgrade from a solid snapshot to the next one, typically once every two weeks or so. This allows rolling as quickly or slowly as is desired, provided the snapshots are still available here: http://download.opensuse.org/history/

I'd suggest you to install tumbleweed-cli (zypper in tumbleweed-cli) to target a specific snapshot, so you're not going to upgrade your system all the time, but only when a new snapshot is released (and when you want to switch to it, at your discretion).

I do believe you're right! My mistake. That's good to know. It looks like it's just the scoring system that's done by a third party - unless I'm wrong again :) Please let me know if I am. I'm still hesitant to use it with respect to the scoring system as an ordinary user. I was under the misconception that the github repo at https://github.com/boombatower/tumbleweed-cli would have been under the official opensuse github repo.