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New to Linux, have a few questions
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OpenSUSE Tumbleweed is an awesome distro with up to date packages. KDE is also a great choice, especially with Plasma 6.0 around the corner.
I wouldn't worry too much about Nvidia drivers, just follow OpenSUSE's guide [1]. The remaining issues of Nvidia with KDE Wayland are getting fixed over the coming months.
Edit: OpenSUSE can't ship some codecs by default for legal reasons (like RedHat, Fedora), but makes it simple to enable them (optionally through graphical YaST) [2].
[1] https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:NVIDIA_drivers
[2] https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Installing_codecs_from_Packman_repositories
That makes sense, thanks!