I can totally agree. From my personel experience these machines work just fine for a regular family household (so like 4 users). Only downside is if you need a lot of storage. But for that it is (imho) a better idea to have a dedicated machine.
From my personal experience I can totally agree. I have a HP Elitedesk with a i5-8500T and it runs multiple Jellyfin 4K HDR streams just fine with Hardware transcoding. And it does this while hosting other services like pihole, minecraft server, homeassistant in parallel. So for a regular family household these machines are good enough. Don’t know if it also works fine with more users (5+).
For me it’s openSUSE Tumbleweed on my Desktops/Laptops and openSuse Leap on my Servers. The killing Feature for me was the propper BTRFS integration with Snapper for seamless rollbacks in case I borked the system in some way.
One “downside” for me is the mix of Gnome Settings and Yast on my Desktop. But I like yast on my servers for managing everything (enabling ports in firewall, network config, enable autoamtic isntall of security updates, etc.). Also openSuse is not that common, so sometimes it is hard to find a solution if you have a distribution specific question.
Personally never looked to closely into openSuse Build Services (OBS). But I know some people who really like it.
I like the “Power connected status change”. Helps to find out if the charger is relly plugged in. Hopefully Papers will receive support for digital signage which evince never did. This is still lacking in GNOME.