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openSUSE Tumbleweed
The big advantage IMHO, is the out of the box BTRFS set up that lets you simply roll back to a non-broken state, right from the grub menu, should an update break your system. I haven't had to use it yet, but it is a huge source of comfort knowing it is there.
Also, many people coming to opensuse remark how much snappier it is than other distros.
Garuda uses this feature on an Arch base, it's saved me a couple of times. Props to openSUSE for developing the way to make that happen!
Glad to hear someone else uses this awesome tool. I think unstable debian based Siduction uses that too.
BTRFS has saved my life a bunch, I'm the kind that enjoys experimenting and changing stuff just to see what happens
I had to scroll waaaaay down to find this. Mindboggling how underrated this distro is!
It's getting 3/4's of the votes of Debian. I think their profile has increase a lot in the last year or so.
YaST
It's rolling and reliable
Security by default. Firewall is set up blocking ports for UDP etc. so you are protected out of the box.
It's incredibly well put together
It is up to date so you can often get newer hardware working due to newer kernels.
Everything just works