With every version of SUSE there's a whole bunch of people going "oh this is the worst release ever <insert various arguments to explain>"
Our office runs SUSE on a number of desktops, and it's constantly installed on development boxes for various purposes. No version of SUSE (since I first used 6.1) have had any serious issues, and any major show-stoppers have had prompt updates available.
Well you are right. I guess if you want to avoid computer problems you should not own one :). And yes people talk and complain and it is a lot of talk for nothing as updates become available and thinks start working the way we are used to expect. I think even in this rants there is some benefit as it points out to people what they can face and everyone can make up their own mind what to do. If I was following all the talk on the release I would have probably known that ZEN has been pushed late and I can expect problems I would also be more aware that it has some major benefits and hold on for an update patiently that will let me use them. I did not .. but I am still holding on to my box. What this talk helps though is identify the problems and make me wait a little longer for my work machine that I absolutely need functioning all the time and yes it is running SuSE 10.0 ... so there. All software is buggy and can change some does change for the better other types not. I am into this for the positive change :). george