I think you want the opensuse@opensuse.org list; not -factory. opensuse@opensuse.org is for end-users, factory is for those building the next generation of packages.
Now my requirement: Audio-video conversion, watching movies, listening music, taking prints, secured banks transactions, multimedia, image editing, CD/DVD burning, and of course net surfing and emailing. All this I could do in Windows GUI, but I felt some reason to switch to Linux.
All this can be done on openSUSE.
Now what I heard and got to know is that there are numerous OS in Linux itself. People say Fedora is highly highly secured and good, yes it could be but is having a very frequent update cycle and much more technical in nature. For Ubuntu (Long Term Support), I am quite confused. Cent OS is stable but is like Fedora itself, so is a little typical, what I guess. Scientific Linux might be good.
All such general statements as "highly secured" are to be *IGNORED* and *DISCARDED*. In time you'll learn to filter out pointless generalized babble such as that. For the desktop, which is what you describe, you do *not* want Fedora (a developer's distro) or CentOS (a server-centric distro). openSUSE or Ubuntu would be suitable. As a novice avoid anything out of the big four [CentOS, Fedora, openSUSE, Ubuntu] - and most importantly ignore anyone who tries to convince you otherwise. Distro-hopping is bad. Moving from one distro to another is *NOT* a solution to problems and only serves to flop your problems around - pick one distribution, stick to it, and if you encounter issues seek assistance and fix them. Do *not* reinstall, or "try another one". Of course, I recommend openSUSE.
But my request is to let me know if Open SUSE is okay for a novice,
Yes.
especially for the person who is not from softwares but want to use a linux distro. Secondly, I guess (but don't know) if it would easily fulfill my purposes without going into the core technical details.
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