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Haven't tried openSUSE Tumbleweed yet but I heard it's a great stable rolling release distro. I might give it a try. How's the package manager?
Good but slow. Zypper has nice features but for some reason it can only download one package at a time. There is a GitHub issue about this that has been around for years.
It's great, there's a toolbx/distrobox image, check it out
I'd go for the atomic version nowadays