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Plasma is just well optimized in openSUSE with sensible defaults like animation speeds etc. and it's really up to date. At least on Tumbleweed which I recommend over Leap anyway.
As for nVidia I can't speak for myself as I have AMD card.
I’ve run Tumbleweed in several VM’s, and it’s great, but I wonder how bad the upkeep is of a rolling release distribution. Do you update every day? Every week? I’d get OCD, probably. How about any danger of mucking up your system versus a more stable release distro?
I see people say they turn off notifications about updates and just do it once a week, but man, if I open Discover and see 30 updates sitting there I cannot ignore it. I get real twitchy about it. So my update routine is daily. Every morning with my fresh cup of coffee I run "zypper dup". If all goes well, I start my day. If all does not go well, I rollback to the previous state with snapper, and then start my day. Using snapper takes about 30 seconds, and frankly nvidia is the only reason I can remember ever having to use rollback.
Tumbleweed is really painless to maintain, even if you update every day. You don't have to update every day, but my particularly specialized Update OCD doesn't allow me to wait a week, it seems.
I've been scripting pre update snapshot, update, restart, post update snapshot. Whenever I start my PC and there's a update notification, I just run my script, have a look at Lemmy or get a coffee or have a piss, and then go on with whatever I was going to do. Or skip update for a day if I don't wanna invest the time.
The only reason for a rollback was a fuck up on my side. Nvidia drivers from the official zypper repo is always up to date and has not failed me for as long as I had a Nvidia GPU
It's really easy and comfortable to use.