OK I gotta put my 2p's worth in here. I use linux and have done for about four years now. I started with redhat which didn't agree with my laptop then moved to madrake (from 7.0 to 10.0) I now use fedora and I have to say it's about the best distro I've tried. I wish you luck with suse from what I've heard it's a good distro and is currently cover mounted on a couple of magazines (linux user and PC Plus I think) If Suse don't do it for you I would recomend Fedora.
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