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Sure, no rush there!
I tried OpenSUSE Tumbleweed, that was a massive mistake (video codecs broken, froze whenever I tried to enter my password without changing from X11 to Wayland or vice versa (a theme was installed)).
Just reinstalled it with OpenSUSE Leap and at least the video codec issue is gone.
Did need to manually configure my disk partitions to get full OS encryption and now my partition table is a REAL mess.
Odd; some codecs are surely not available by default, but can be downloaded from Packman repo, and for the rest I didn't ever face it.
I was told I was missing H264 codecs but it's 2025 so I doubt that'd have the effects I saw. I tried following the instructions to install them provided by OpenSUSE but some kinda dependency nonsense occurred with ffmpeg. Either way, I guess a rolling release isn't for me.