SuSE user here. I was a die hard Slackware then Redhat user for some 7 years but recently switched from a dual boot Redhat/XP Pro installation to a SuSE/Wine setup. SuSE is very well thought out and nicely setup. I still have to run Redhat stuff at work, but SuSE is a nicer desktop.
Apt-get is no better than any of the other online package managers. It can have the same drawbacks of dependency hell as RPM. Both are decent systems and make things a lot easier than the standard configure, make, install process.
