I'm considering trying SuSE MicroOS as a desktop for a while. Any thoughts? I tried suse for a few weeks about a quarter century ago then went back to slackware, so I have no relevant experience.
Tumbleweed occasionally breaks something, but but it uses snapper to create a snapshot before each update, so if there's a problem, I boot into the most recent stable snapshot and wait for a couple of days before I update again.
Leap is very stable in my experience, while also offering relatively up-to-date packages.
The main problem is that out of the box, support for multimedia is not very good, but there is community-run repository with everything I need, i.e. video codecs and such.
If you have a spare computer, I suggest just installing it on that and giving it a try. Otherwise, a virtual machine. It's a lot more heavyweight than Slackware, obviously, and if you dislike systemd, you might not like it very much. But I don't know your preferences and requirements are, so the best I can say is to give it a try and decide for yourself.
If you are not looking for a fine tunning your system and expects stable (yet bleeding edge) base, which just works, I can recommend it.
The biggest thing is that the model pushes one to embrace usage of a distrobox/flatpak.
Would you happen to know if there are any major differences between distrobox and toolbox? Does distrobox also support running graphical apps with hardware acceleration and CUDA with the official Nvidia drivers? That's pretty much my biggest concern.
It’s almost identical in capability, but with MUCH less pre-installed package layered over it (IE: it comes with the Firefox flatpak pre-installed).
I enjoy that it’s a rolling release as well personally