I made the same switch earlier this year. The only real issues I can recall were learning to update flatpak manually because it holds up the other updates if I don’t do that through the Konsole first.
Granted, that might just be my system, but I generally have had far fewer issues with Tumbleweed than I’ve ever had with Mint.
Oh, and my art tablet gets tagged as a game controller for some reason, but it works for what I need it for so I haven’t bothered to fix it.
The original Homeworld also scaled difficulty based on how well you were doing on previous levels.