Ok, I'm a long time suse fan (ever since I dropped mandrake). But, mostly I run it in desktop VM's (openSuse) or on server class machines (sles). With the late

Ok, I'm a long time suse fan (ever since I dropped mandrake). But, mostly I run it in desktop VM's (openSuse) or on server class machines (sles). With the late 12.x series, it was working so well as a desktop OS in the VM that I decided to install it on a real piece of hardware and use it as a daily driver. That was a first for me in about 10 years. And it mostly worked on the laptop I installed it on. Wifi (including fn/enabled/disable buttons, and transitions between networks/wired/etc), suspend/resume, 3d acceleration/opengl, keyboard volume controls, etc all just worked. About the only thing that required futzing was the LCD brightness keyboard bindings were dorked (even though its a standard i3/etc machine) and the bluetooth was also broken. Three or four hours of recompiling modules, and messing with KDE/etc and everything on the machine worked. That made it the _ONLY_ laptop I've ever seen that worked without compromises in linux. Fantastic experience, but with the 13.x series it seemed to go downhill a little. Enough that I stopped upgrading it because things break and I have to screw with it. I wanted to like the leap concept, but it seems so many things were broken that the two days I spent trying to install it on a fairly normal x99 machine with a NVMe drive that I reverted it back to running it in a windows hosted VM. I can't imagine what tumbleweed is like. Getting the kernel to boot and X to display graphics is just the first steps in my book. Plus, don't get me started on the UI changes. I want my desktop machine, and my servers to be _STABLE_. Screwing around with the bluetooth driver every time the kernel gets upgraded (or something similar) isn't something I want to be dealing with when I have actual work that needs finishing. So, before someone tells me to try ubuntu/etc I'm going to say that I regularly run fedora/ubuntu/etc and they all have enough hangups that I continue to run opensuse based products at home (work has a different set of requirements, where I've been fedora/RHEL based recently rather than opensuse/sles). Anyway, I really wish someone would take the leap type concept and stabilize the base OS/X/KDE and maintain it for a long time period while assuring that newer version of linux applications continue to work on that platform. You know, like windows (before 10). That way I won't have to worry that my 1 year old KDE version is to old to run a cd ripping application (or whatever).