OpenSUSE is great, YAST is the best &quot;control panel&quot; app I&#x27;ve seen in any distro, you can configure antyhing without ever opening a terminal or vim. Zypper has also been more robust for me than apt (I&#x27;ve seen apt-get hell once or twice).<p>That said, stay away from Tumbleweed (rolling release). In my experience it&#x27;s been even less stable than Arch or Sid. In the past I&#x27;ve had kernel updates making the machine unbootable, though thankfully the distro does keep all previously installed kernels, easily selectable in GRUB. Just yesterday I banged my head against a year-old bug that pgadmin3 is broken because it hasn&#x27;t been rebuilt against the distributed version of wx (come on).