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What you wrote and what I'm reading about openSuse leap sound excellent. My only concern is support. Just about all the apps and tools I use are well supported on Ubuntu based systems but I don't recall seeing nearly as much support for rpm based oses, including open suse . What's your experience? If you go to install just any random software you just heard about, how well does it typically go getting it installed/working?
I haven't had issues finding packages, often they may not be on the dev websites that host a deb package, but the main repos contain the general tools, if you need something more "fringe",independent dev or new, then software.opensuse.Org allows you to turn on a search by community or experimental packages (which would be like Arch AUR and contains a lot of rpms) so you can install directly from the website, it will add the neccessary community repos during the install. Or if you don't want to pollute your repo list they typically they have the option : Grab Binary directly. Or ther is an OPI ? Package you install that lets you search locally for community packages. For commerical apps like teamviewer , yubikey,webex etc the rpms were all available to support corporate SUSE users. If you still can't find an rpm, then you run the Alien tool which converts a deb to the RPM installation format. The only issue I had once was the community package had dependencies that were not contained in the users repo so I had to find the dependencies and install those first. That felt like 1990s
This is a great response and I appreciate it a lot. I'm saving it for later!
No problem. Happy New Year. Also it is .org i mistakenly put .com for the opensuse software site. ( I will edit post) Also I should mention if you dont see an officially supported rpm on the software site, it does not mean it isn't there, it now seems to mean it is in the main repos. I think years back they would all show, but maybe due to shared binaries with SUSE they don't bother listing on the https://software.opensuse.org site. So best to check locally in the YAST or Zypper search of your repos first.
Thanks again! And a happy new year to you too