Hi, No one is probally interested ;), but I figured I would voice my opinions (my wife is now sick of them, so u lot get em :)) As the title says, I'm a EX redhat user (from 3 days), I've been using Linux now just over 5 years (and no windows either!), so I pretty confident around the system, and run 30 servers at work, the problem was they and my home machines were all Redhat based, yeah I've been there , Gentoo (to time consuming), Slackware (cool, IMHO crap package management), Mandrake (too buggy), Debian (apt is great, just not too cutting edge, yes I can use unstable), blah!, blah! and well Redhat... I've been slowly getting sick of rehat for around a year, numerous problems: 1. RPM is really broken. 2. their own rpms have really weird depandicies 3. system very, very slow 4. kernels are usiually weird. on the plus the Gnome desktop is really nice, compared to most over distros (and that includes SuSE), and I'm very used to it. Anyway, I read a review the other night and tried SuSE 8.2 Live Eval, and I loved it right away, and even gosh! liked KDE (yes I have always hated KDE, but then always used Gnome since the 1.0 days), so I rushed out literly withing 20 mins of using the Eval and bought the Professional version. Heres my opinions (so far :)): And so far I'm not going back to Redhat, its completely knock me off my stool (chair), ok its got its fair share of bugs and errors, but what distro hasn't?: 1. Unable to find my monitor (yet even RedHat 6.2 can find it..weird) 2. YaST2 package installer takes some getting used too (then its pretty esy) 3. Xine has no sound! 4. Foobillard is completely broken (same on RH). 5. Gnome is crippled, No AntiAliasing fonts, very basic setup (yes its the reverse from redhat, their KDE is). 6. Weird package names compared to Redhat (yes I know this is not redhat, this is my problem). 7. Everything just works (90%). 8. No gnome-spell for evolution (hence my spelling mistakes) 9. The biggest plus is speed and stability compared to RH, on my old RH system , If I had Xmms, evolution, Mozilla open , then tried to run say UT 2003 or RTCW, it would judder, stutter, xmms would halt. On SuSE, nothing, not even a blip from xmms, it was if I never had enything else running, perfect. 11. I actually now like KDE :) 12. SuSE have actually bothered to give WindowMaker a real menu :) Anyway feel free to call me a troll :) Mark