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OpenSuse is already by itself a well rounded distro. It supports multiple desktops out-of-the-box, is highly customizable so it doesn't really need forks.
To add to this, there aren't that many forks (in the true sense of the word) of Arch for the same reason.
Yeah, the distro installer even allows you to fully customize which packages should be installed, if you fancy that.