I've just given opensuse 10.1 a try... I think that it's when you come across distros like these that you understand why we love ubuntu so much. I must confess the first impression was quite like woow!: nice and clean installer, very good hardware detection, awesome artwork...
... and a lot of useless stuff that got installed along the way
but boy... usability wise it doesn't even come close to Ubuntu. The KDE menu is something which gives you an headache just by looking at it: total lack of separation between personal preferences and system wide settings, items scattered all over the place, but what i loved most was the software section in yast, where you could find, among the others:
system update
online update
online update setup
online update configuration
what each of those things did is beyond me, don't even bother with asking me what the difference is... but wait, there's more to it, there were even another few extra system updaters here and there (gtk apps) buried deep somewhere in the kde menu...
The next thing I clicked on was the reboot button to get back to my beloved dapper.
Damn too funny. If the ubuntu devs came up with a menu like that, there would be popular unrest here in the forums.
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