I use tumbleweed and it’s fine. I’ve been using it for about 2 years and there are a few things that were easier with fedora (e.g. Waydroid) but it’s not enough of a difference that I felt the need to switch back.
That being said, if I had to choose today and do a fresh install I would probably use Fedora.
Yeah that’s basically what I did too.
I just installed dash to dock and made the icons quite large, then rebound a button on my air-mouse to the super key (to bring up the dash). I also installed Just Perfection and used it to hide the top bar unless the dash is open.
90% of the time, I’m just using Firefox, so I don’t need anything too fancy.
I’ve heard that the focus is on the ARM versions (so maybe they are much more developed) but I tried the x86_64 version on my HTPC recently and it was super barebones.
In the end I found Gnome with a few extensions to be a better solution for my needs
As a data scientist working in ML: it’s essentially all python outside of some really niche stuff