Re; 3rd party
Lee, I notice there are plenty of pointers in the Newbies thread eg:
NEWBIES - Suse-11.1 Pre-installation – PLEASE READ - openSUSE Forums
Of course that is great, but, as I have previously suggested/mentioned. Oneclick is all very well (and I even link to them in the HowTo you quote), but they do seem to result in repo conflicts. The New user does not actually understand what has happened. The next thing is the updater lists updates and there is a stack of dependedcy problems.
I don't think there is any easy answer, as it is often the case that the inexperienced plunge head long in to a installation frenzy. Trying to do everything at once.
3rd party applications are a Huge part of the whole picture and in my opinion it would be good to have something Clear and Obvious in the newbies section (even if it is a header, brief statement and then link to good HowTo's) Though I'm not sure mine qualifies.
On another note, but related to the Newbie thread, at #2
Under BIOS
It would be good if you added some pointers to help people with this. I have seen quite a number of threads recently with users not knowing how to access their BIOS. Yes, I know - is it Esc. Del. F1???? But something there maybe.
But so far so good with what you have done there Lee. Nice work.