I’m with you on this. I’ve been using openSUSE since it was SuSE Linux, and I still here bs on occasion about how they sold out open-source to MS. I’m not a huge fan of what Novell did back in the day, although it did end up costing MS more money. That said the opensuse community is not whichever corporation owns SLE currently, and they still contribute back to the community.
Gnome shell works well on my vivo as either a tablet or with the keyboard.
I’ve been using Opensuse since it was called SuSE. Tumbleweed is great.