Well, one installer later, and I'm posting from Suse. Installation was *mainly* OK. When formatting the partitions, Yast mounted them and then complained that they were mounted :-( . So needed to play around a bit. To be fair, I didn't just use auto since I had 2 windows partitions and was wanting to use the old ext3 partitions I had (just format / and /home).

Network setup was pretty easy, although I cursed for a few minutes because of a simple typo I made (for the technically minded: I need an mtu of 1452 because of my wierd Chinese pppoe connection; I set this up on eth0 instead of ppp0 which killed my connection).

Now I'm going to have a look around the desktop.