So I love gentoo, however on a desktop computer which I will using for Uni it was a little high maintenance. I wanted to try something new so I gave Fedora 11 a go, which failed, so a work mate got me a copy of OpenSUSE.
The hardest part of the install was working out it’s partitioning tool and not getting it to touch my second drive, which had Windows and backups on it. I did finally get it to work, but for some reason it thought 15GB was enough room for me. That’s not a huge problem because I just extended the LVM after the install.
Once install, installing the ATI drivers using the one click installer was wonderful (however I did have to click more than once). Compiz fusion was easy enabled and networking (WPA) was a breeze to setup in YaST. The general look and feel wasn’t quite right, so as usual I modified to my liking.
OpenSUSE for me has achieved my goal as the required amount of terminal use is minimal. I have installed several apps without any problems and it’s been wonderful to use.