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Coming from Fedora/Cinnamon, I went with Tumbleweed/Plasma. As dumb as it sounds, checking out those "X things to do after installing openSUSE Tumbleweed" articles really helps get the ball rolling with adding the Packman repo, using opi for codecs, installing MS Fonts for compatibility, and other basic quality-of-life things like that. YaST does a lot of heavy lifting and hand holding, which can be good or bad depending on your Linux journey, experience, and/or philosophy - but it is very convenient. Honestly, like with anything Linux, you just kind of adjust til you find things you don't like - which, to be honest, my main list of things is less with openSUSE itself and more with KDE Plasma.
I guess that's a long way to say, I've been fine and haven't missed Fedora.
I'm probably going to be switching from fedora too, what were your issues with KDE plasma?
Nothing broken or nonfunctional or anything. I've just been more of a fan of Cinnamon (and Xfce before that). I hadn't tried Plasma in any real capacity in years, so figured I'd see where it's at now; it's fine. So they're more complaints than issues - "old man yells at cloud"-type stuff because I have to figure out everything again, which is frustrating when you have a workflow.
Oh that's good to hear- I'll have to give it a shot!
Good excuse to clean house anyways