I've been in IT almost 40 years now. Started out on real computers with real operating systems doing large scale distributed systems before we had the Internet. Eventually migrated to the home hobby x86 platforms then to embedded systems for medical devices. I started using SuSE during the days of OS/2 when SuSE came in a box with floppies and printed manuals. Got trapped in RPM Hell many times applying updates via dial-up modems. If memory serves the "Open" in front of SuSE came about the same time DEC put "Open" in front of VMS because some failed marketing "guru" at Gartner Group decided "Open" was the way to sell things. DEC (which runs almost every nuclear power plant and most metal mills in America if not the world) got bought by Compaq then consumed by HP and now spun-off into a tiny company that is a shell of its former self. So much for the success of "Open" marketing. While I've been using many other Linux distros professionally developing software, writing my award winning technical book series, and working on OpenSource, I bounce back to OpenSuSE occasionally. In fact, I just bounced back recently and it lead to this https://www.logikalsolutions.com/wordpress/information-technology/leap-15-6/ and many other blog posts. OpenSuSE isn't very "Open." Even Fedora (which I hate) is more "Open" and end user friendly. OpenSuSE has steadfastly committed to being an expert-friendly OS just like SuSE has always been. The debacle involving yast-printers, yast-firewall, and Cups is just the tip of the iceberg. Choosing buggy phone-flicking Gnome, a desktop hated uniformly in the Linux community almost as much as Cannonical's Unity was and hiding the real desktop desktops like Mate and Cinnamon where only an expert can find them is not very "Open." As to the get rid of Leap comment, no. Tumbleweed is unusable for anyone that actually wants to do something. AGILE is ___NOT___ a valid software development methdology, it's just the latest name for hacking on the fly to get a marketing department. When I was writing this book https://www.theminimumyouneedtoknow.com/agile_book.html I was using LibreOffice. At around page 200 an LO "update" was pushed out where they completely changed image handling. Completely trashed the book. I had to take an older backup copy of the book, then install a Linux distro which had the previous version and LOCK IT DOWN FROM UPDATES mostly by disconnecting from the Internet. To finish writing the book. I have since bought a TextMaker license, not because it is good, but because it is locked down. No forced updates trashing 6+ months of work. While this topic of dropping the "Open" and splitting from SuSE is open, I would like to point you to a forum discussion https://www.logikalsolutions.com/wordpress/forum/forum/medical-device-develo... and a blog post series https://www.logikalsolutions.com/wordpress/information-technology/medical-de... I have been working in the medical device development field for the past decade. We __HAVE__ to have a Locked Down development environment. No forced or "random" updates. No Agile shipping of the turd that came out of last Sprint "to get feedback." When we submit a 510K filing we have to identify each and every version of each and every package/library on paper. A third party has to be able to assemble the development environment from those paper instructions and the versions of everything have to match. Then they have to be able to build our software and set up the factory line, finally building devices that pass FDA inspection. The above was how GM was able to start building ventilators during the pandemic. We have to supply "no skills required" documentation in the 510K filing. Here is a golden opportunity for NotOpenSuSE to drop legacy tumors like yast-printer, relying completely on Cups and documenting such, unhide the actual desktop desktops, and create a locked-down desktop that will stay exactly as it is for 10+ years. No forced updates. Stable. You can satisfy an actual need. A desperate need. We have to do an awful lot of work to create a locked down development world. Despite this rant, once you crawl across 15 miles of broken glass breaching the firewall enough to install printers, and learn the super secret hiding places so you can get an actual usable desktop, NotOpenSuSE is a very stable desktop. You should split. SuSE was ___never___ user friendly. Even when it came on floppies with printed documentation it was always expert friendly. People have always hated Yast. The concept of having everything in one place wasn't bad, but the implementation has historically been a dog's breakfast. A great example of that is a world where Yast-printer is trying to co-exist with industry standard Cups. It needs to just be a shell that launches the default browser for url "localhost:631". The Installation procedure needs to ask the user what kind of network they are connected to as I documented in one of the above blog posts. If it is a "home" network, put the default network device in the "home" zone and open up the usual printing ports, then have a script add the driverless printers Cups can find like every other distro on the market. Just my 0.002 cents