Originally Posted by narayan

I'll have to stick in a vote of support for SuSE here. As indicated above I recently installed SuSE in a vmware appliance and found it to be a very pleasant experience. I used the 1 CD KDE install option and was very impressed with it. Installation and setup was a breeze and everything so far is rock solid.

Now that's not to say that SuSE would be my OS of choice but I don't think there is anything to much that sucks about it. For a beginner this is an ideal distro. It guides you through the whole process with a great GUI and then has a great set of GUI based tools to get on with the job once setup. I go so far as to say it's a much better choice for Linux newbs than the other popular 1 CD kde based distro, kubuntu.

Early next year I'll be setting up a machine for the rest of my family to migrate away from windows on. At this stage SuSE will be my choice for this task.

While I'd be prepared to concede that SuSE is slower than other distros I don't think the difference is obvious enough to bother most users. As for myself I think I'd stick to a highly streamlined and unbloated Arch machine but that's for me as someone who knows his way around a linux box.

SuSE has its place as does any distro that fills a need. I think it's a bit harsh to give it the 'sucks' tag.