Exactly this. SUSE has the enterprise reputation to get the support sales contracts.

I’m not too knowledgeable on the topic but I thought the amd iGPU had vce, which is a their version of quicksync?

Exactly, for a home lab I would pick an Amd over Intel just to have the extra cores on top of costing less.

I have found that some things just aren’t ready for arm and I’ll probably swap my worker nodes to x86 only. Should be okay to keep etcd and control nodes as mixed.

Did they get it working with multi arch setups? I have a few pi’s in my cluster and last time I looked at using that it wasn’t ready for arm64