[consused]

You are both right that users trying a new operating system naturally compare it to the one they are used to. It's unfortunate when after an initial period of investigation they don't realize it takes a different approach in many ways. Not everyone will come to that in the same time. So you help them in the forum to adjust, and to get things working if possible, as you both do. With respect, the question was about the distro and what doesn't work now on the currently available version(s).

Leaving windows co-existence aside since I don't use it, I think some of the above categories suffer from being to general. From that difficulty, I would like to suggest that some of the mis-conceptions could be due to the miniscule release notes that have accompanied openSUSE 10.x through 11.x.

Hardware support issues is a difficult one for any distro, because there is so much to cover. However, sometimes the Developers know that certain h/w, e.g grapic cards won't work because they have removed Xorg drivers from the upstream release. If there are too many examples, it probably means the shorter supported list should be documented. So should any functions that are not included or supported in major software components. That should be in the distro's release notes. I won't bore you with other examples - you get the drift. It's even more important for organizations delivering suites of applications.

The problem, with that being implemented, is usually the extra resource to do it. However, it would be good to see some, even small improvement.

On the Grub related issues: Grub is a powerful, flexible, but low level interface. Yast provides the nearest thing to a "boot manager" application, but it needs some improvement e.g second level options that can be missed, and clearer Help description to remove ambiguities.