That is why I chose very commodity hardware and run openSUSE Leap 15.2 on it. I wanted a solid distro with a reasonable update policy, not something that pushes

That is why I chose very commodity hardware and run openSUSE Leap 15.2 on it. I wanted a solid distro with a reasonable update policy, not something that pushes 100+ new updates every week. Debian Stable or perhaps Testing would also have been good choices, but I like YaST. In the interest of full disclosure, I have had one issue with my build. The motherboard has four SATA connectors; Two from the Intel chipset, which work flawlessly, and two from an additional ASM1061 chipset, which don't. They seem to work initially, but when you start pushing larger amounts of data through them, errors start to pop up. As far as I can tell, it's a either a driver issue or a BIOS issue, I can't remember whether I got those same errors on an ASM1061-based 2-port SATA PCIe expansion card or not. Either way, I replaced it with Marvell-based 4-port card instead, and just avoid using the ASM1061 ports for now. Next time I add a disk to the system, I'll connect it to the potentially troublesome ports and run some tests, to see whether it was a driver issue that has been cleared up. So yeah, not perfect, but good enough for me :-)