It has always worked fine for me. The occasional upgrade process is manual but literally just a command.

Opensuse's freaking rolling release just works. This stuff is very mature. It is just different and that scares people.

Came to say this. It works well for displacing things, not lubrication.

Second this. Hamstudy app is great. Takes a little work but really is not hard, then you can do things properly.

Or just pay the $35 and get a GMRS license and skip the Baofengs, find some cheap Radiooddity or etc. Part 95 radios and you still get to use repeaters that are pretty common.