yes darkstar, i agree the opensuse menu choices are vast and confusing. one of the reasons i stayed with ubuntu is gnome's simplicity.

i still like/prefer kde's look-n-feel (dont like KDE4) and all the apps like amarok/ktorrent/k3b etc, so i will give opensuse 11 a try if it comes with kde3 or has a theme for kde4 to make it look like classic kde3

another reason why i dropped opensuse 10.3 is because during install if you check the "check for update/repositories" boxes (something like that) then it takes HUGE amount of time to download package lists on my 256k connection.

also the package management/solver etc are much slower than apt/deb of ubuntu.

but both fedora and opensuse are claiming they have improved packaging speeds so i will also give opensuse 11 a try again

See Duncan Mac-Vicar P. Blog Archive fast package management and yum results journal/notes