I’ve been using tumbleweed for awhile and I would be hesitant to suggest it to a new user unless they are comfortable with solving technical problems and learning how to take advantage of its recovery features. (Such as btrfs snapshots)

It’s got some out of the box issues where you’re expected to research and understand how to solve them. (Like many other distros) Where I’ve found Ubuntu just simply works or its just a few clicks away from working.

Things like the backlight on laptops not responding, codec support (needing to use packman repo), Nvidia support (has improved significantly over the years).

And with the nature of tumbleweed there’s so many frequent updates, plus you’re expected to understand how to resolve zypper package concerns.

Great OS, most issues I’ve had, have been solved. I am currently battling with it to properly support my 9070xt /w rocm. (Mostly working but unstable)