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Honestly, I don't know. Though, I'd reckon there would be any significant difference between distros.
Depends on what you mean with stability. If you meant it like how "stable" is used in "Debian stable", then it would be any distro with a release cycle that chooses to not continuously deliver packages; but instead chooses to freeze packages and hold off updates (besides those related to security) for the sake of offering a relatively polished experience in which the behavior of the distro is relatively predictable. Some distros that score good on this would be Debian stable and openSUSE Leap. It's worth noting that Distrobox, Flatpak and Nix allow one to have newer packages on these systems if desired.
If, instead, you meant that the distro is less likely to break upon an update, then it's important to note the following:
As for recommendations you shouldn't look beyond unadulterated distros like (Arch^[3]^), Debian, Fedora, openSUSE (and Ubuntu^[4]^). These are (in almost all cases^[5]^) more polished than their respective derivatives.
Most of the distros mentioned in this comment should perform close enough to one another that it shouldn't matter in most cases.
If you're still lost, then just pick Linux Mint and call it a day.
archinstall
) might be too much for a complete newbie if they haven't seen a video guide on it.I'm going to give openSUSE Leap a try.
Yup, that's what I meant
Great choice! But as others already have noted; if it will be used for virtualization only, then perhaps distros like Proxmox should suit you better.