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I've had a pretty good experience with OpenSUSE Tumbleweed, with a pretty similar use case / criteria.
I've done my share of tinkering, and while I learned a lot, and enjoyed Gentoo, Arch, Debian, NixOS, and others (Mandrake, Ubuntu), I sometimes I just want get my work done...
With Tumbleweed, there are a few packages that you'd need to install for codecs, but that's easily done via the CLI
zypperpackage manager with a single command.I'd definitely recommend checking it out - its been a solid daily driver for almost 3-years now with very few issues, and lets me focus on getting stuff done. I wonder if this is due to their QA build process (OBS)?
Anyway, good luck & have fun whatever you choose!
When I tried it a year ago, printer setup failed with a permission error until I disabled the firewall, and I had to install a community repo by a random person and manually edit a text file to get airprint and airscan working. Half the YaST modules didn't seem to do anything or work correctly, or duplicated KDE settings. That's what I consider to be "annoying visible bugs".
I also find their software selection to be limited (without said random community repos), and you can only update Tumbleweed from the command line. It felt like an unfinished mod of their flagship LEAP distro.