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For a personal PC I love it, never had any issues, package selection is great and bleeding edge.
You may raise your eyebrow since this is in contrast with my previous comment, but I've rephrased the final sentence since then (I was rather annoyed by the lack of some official apps on Linux, rather than packages for my specific distro. And that's 100 on Microsoft/Docker).
To be honest I'm not sure TW is the best choice for a workstation because of its rolling nature, but I just recently turned my personal PC into my (also) work PC, therefore I sticked with what I already had.
An LTS kernel would probably be the safest option, but with snapshots out of the box (if you use btrfs), I still feel quite safe right now. If an update should break something crucial for my work, I'd just roll it back.
Transitioning from debian based shouldn't be hard, zypper is quite intuitive and fast. You also get OBS which is kinda like pacman user packages.
If you need some obscure app which was packaged years ago in binary for Linux, you'll probably have much more luck with Debian based since apparently .deb is the first package you wanna target.
But it hasn't happened in a while now that I needed to download such obscure binaries, typically I could find a repackaged version or an alternative app all together, so...