I got that same impression (overly security minded) from 10.0 and 10.1, which is part of the reason that I dropped them. However, I decided to toy with it again with 10.3, and it seems like all, or at least most of, the kinks are gone. I have yet to have the security software interrupt me from my every day apps, and the system boots and runs as fast, if not faster than, ubuntu did. Suspend to disk also works on opensuse, which it never did with ubuntu.
Barring opensuse 10.3, I'd second debian. I run it on my file server, and quite frankly it's the only distro I'd ever put on it again. I don't run it on my main machines because, well, I like living on the bleeding edge (or at least within a stone's throw of it), and having the fanciest glitz prepckaged. My biggest beef with opensuse is the lack of having every package a simple apt-get away. |
