Hey there @CubicleNate , thanks a lot for the mention of SpiralLinux! I would be interested in knowing how it works on one of Dan Kelly’s famous “potatoes”, especially the ones with Broadcom WiFI, I think it has a decent chance of supporting it out-of-the-box.
I would like to share your optimism about the future of ALP eventually satisfying openSUSE Leap users’ needs and preferences. But everything seems to be pointing to a radical change to SLE within a few years, motivated by SUSE’s corporate and profit interests. I’ll reserve my opinion on that last part. But at least at this juncture it doesn’t look too promising for use as a flexible general desktop operating system:
MRAZOR12
They [SUSE] said there is no plan to abandon the desktop workflow.
rbrownsuse MicroOS (Desktop & Server) Release Manager
There is no plan to abandon it, sure
But it’s also not an area of priority
So there’s that. Regarding the question “Why not Fedora?” for the SpiralLinux base, good question. @MichaelTunnell had the same question on This Week in Linux 202, here’s my response: