OpenSUSE Tumbleweed has a GUI for almost everything. It has a nice GUI for basic system config, and uses YaST2 for deeper settings, and it uses Discover for Flatpaks as well as system library updates.

Although, I have seen a couple people say Discover shouldn’t be used for doing system updates because it can fail, and to only use it for Flatpak updates and installs. I dunno. But it’s not like typing sudo zypper dup to do a distro upgrade is hard, so I just do that out of an abundance of caution.

OpenSUSE has some other cool features too, like having Snapper installed by default for system snapshots. It’s pretty easy to roll back if an upgrade goes sideways. There’s a boot entry that lets you open a previous snapshot as read-only and then you can make that snapshot permanent by creating a new top-level snapshot from it. So then you can at least use your computer while you try to figure out why the upgrade you did failed.

You’ll probably want to use KDE as your desktop environment. It’ll be somewhat familiar if you’re use to Windows, and it has a lot of features that make it comfortable to use.

There are lots of good YouTube videos on why OpenSUSE is pretty cool. Check some out.

What do personally use G’MIC for?

https://gmic.eu/

The example screenshots all look gimmicky (heh) or super advanced scientific image processing.

I guess noise reduction is useful to the average user. Depends on how good it is.

It works on each of these:

https://github.com/iorate/ublacklist#supported-search-engines