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openSUSE. Either Tumbleweed (rolling) or Leap (stable). A few reasons for this:
Edit: it's probably best to avoid their "SlowRoll" distro for now. It's rolling but with less frequent updates than Tumbleweed, which many may thinks is a sweet spot. However, it's still in beta and I've heard of people having issues with it occasionally.
Slowroll was recommended previously.
Yes, I've seen it recommended in the past, but just wanted to mention the caveats. Might as well go for Tumbleweed, which appears to be their main distro. In fact, if I recall correctly they had announced a couple of years ago that they were going to sunset Leap but then walked that back when the community protested.