Me too. It's been generally painless once remembered the differences (e.g. zypper v apt). I almost went to Alma because $DAYJOB is an RPM shop, and considering recent events I may have dodged a bullet.

Yep, Suse ticks many boxes. I don't know why it isn't more popular. I've installed it in desktop and laptop without issues.

I want to say at one time multimedia was a little wonky on SuSE. Stuff like getting my OTA TV cards and some of the HTPC apps required an excessive amount of googling for rando repositories that inevitably ran into a broken dependency at some point down the road. That's about all I can remember going badly over the years. Hopefully that's no longer an issue.