[suse_tpx60s]

Well a little update from me. I installed 11.1 about 5-6 weeks ago. I came from XP. I pretty much decided when I switched that I would make it work and would resist any temptation to go back to XP.

Superficially the install all went fine and everything seemed to work out of the box which made me very happy, that is until you start digging a little deeper and find that actually it's not quite working as you expect. I installed 11.1 on a Thinkpad and chose openSuSE mainly because Thinkpads were offered with SLED so I thought SuSE would have it pretty sorted.

My main headaches are that the docking / undocking doesn't work properly and will require lots of scripts to get it working as it should. This is very annoying as I have to shut the system down everytime before I attempt to dock / undock otherwise the results are unpredictable.
I still have sound problems. Everytime I think I've cracked it something else seems to break it. I've pretty much have it working now except Thunderbird will not play any sound or some reason.
Everything seems to take much longer as I'm constently hitting a wall due to my lack of knowledge, so have to go off googling or posting here.
I find that a lot of my problems come down to permissions and me not understanding them fully and how they work.

So for me the list is
Permissions - A whole new ball game.
Sound - Seems unpredictable
Incomplete functionality - docking / undocking solution not well thought out.
Lack of proper integration of some apps / utilities.