I remember (it was March that I tried out SuSE) having problems getting things to run on Gnome while they worked quite easily on KDE; one example was KTranslator – I had to edit .bash_profile to get it to run on Gnome and then found it started automatically as soon as I logged on into KDE.

Whether you use Gnome or KDE you will find that you cannot enter a character with its Unicode number with Ctrl+Shift+U on SuSE as you can with Fedora. Although I would not expect a translator to want to resort to this input method often, I still think it's a very good feature to have.

Also you will find that the hidden folder for OpenOffice on Fedora (or Debian or Ubuntu or Sabayon) is not compatible with the one on SuSE – so in switching from Fedora to SuSE you may well have to reload all your OpenOffice macros and dictionaries etc.