Great to see another person moving to Linux and OpenSuSE. My only caution if this is your first time with Linux is that a point release like OpenSuSE Leap is probably a better place to start than Tumbleweed. I’m on Tumbleweed and it’s generally good but I have had a few things break over the last couple of years, often fixed at next update in fairness but it is frustrating even as an experienced user. I have also had to reinstall Tumbleweed on one occasion; it wasn’t a big deal as I’d set up a separate Home and System partition. Tumbleweed is great but it is a rolling release and even though it’s a well tested one rolling releases are always riskier in terms of things breaking.
In other news, I actually ended up on openSUSE Leap 16.0 after it released. Originally, I upgraded from Leap 15.6 to 16.0, but I opted to do it fresh, take my time, log all my changes, and ended up with KDE Plasma 6 for my DE. Of all the DE’s, KDE has the most features I want, with the fewer annoyances I don’t.
Great to see another person moving to Linux and OpenSuSE. My only caution if this is your first time with Linux is that a point release like OpenSuSE Leap is probably a better place to start than Tumbleweed. I’m on Tumbleweed and it’s generally good but I have had a few things break over the last couple of years, often fixed at next update in fairness but it is frustrating even as an experienced user. I have also had to reinstall Tumbleweed on one occasion; it wasn’t a big deal as I’d set up a separate Home and System partition. Tumbleweed is great but it is a rolling release and even though it’s a well tested one rolling releases are always riskier in terms of things breaking.
In other news, I actually ended up on openSUSE Leap 16.0 after it released. Originally, I upgraded from Leap 15.6 to 16.0, but I opted to do it fresh, take my time, log all my changes, and ended up with KDE Plasma 6 for my DE. Of all the DE’s, KDE has the most features I want, with the fewer annoyances I don’t.