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Yes, Manjaro is European. KDE is the same everywhere. IMO it is not stable, but that is just an opinion. I'm not sure how many people use it.
OpenSUSE is relatively beginner friendly. Leap is the stable, non-rolling release, and Tumbleweed is the rolling, less stable but still stable release; Leap's packages can be old, so you may not have the newest KDE. For this reason, I'd recommend Tumbleweed. A fair amount of people use it.
I'd say use Fedora or switch to OpenSUSE Tumbleweed. Fedora is more stable and used more, but OpenSUSE is European.
I use fedora kinoite atomic fedora with KDE. I have had no stability issues on a day to day usage for going on 2 years. I agree plasma is plasma regardless of distro but some distros update slower. Fedora is not bleeding edge but does do a pretty good job of staying ahead of the curve. I have been a Linux user since the 90's and have been around the block a few times with different distros. I always fall back to redhat/fedora for my desktop day to day.