I don't think I had any specific reason for picking OpenSUSE, at least none that I can remember. Their Tumbleweed rolling release seemed interesting to me. As

I don't think I had any specific reason for picking OpenSUSE, at least none that I can remember. Their Tumbleweed rolling release seemed interesting to me. As for the experience, I mostly like it. There is some re-learning to do (zypper not apt!), but the vast majority of things are the same. Since the distro isn't as popular, there are fewer asked-and-answered questions out there, but most Ubuntu answers work with minimal adaptation and the OpenSUSE wiki is pretty good. Another downside of going non-Debian is that proprietary software may be less well-supported. I think I only have Steam and Spotify, and they have worked well so far.