One of the things that Suse seems to lack is the offer to help when you are missing something. When you don't have a codec, Ubuntu offers to go away and find it; if you need hardware 3d turned on, it'll try and grab the drivers for you. Suse definitely misses out on this trick.

Next up, and it's a big one: *NO 3D*. Ouch! There's nothing to grab from the repo's, and apparently ATI don't seem to know my gfx card exists on their website (well, kind of; they'll sell me one but don't list it in their drivers section!). Bummer 'cos this worked out of the box on Ubuntu.

Finally, download speeds when grabbing software are all over the place. They can be really slow, slow or just not fast. Today I got 3.3KB/s for a 80MB download.

I am now officially missing Ubuntu. No 3D, smaller and much slower repos, default software that has failed to work out of the box and nothing to show for the extra pain....