I used SuSE back in the day. The first version I had was 7.0 which I bought at Best Buy. Before that, I had messed with a Red Hat clone and Mandriva. But, I really liked SuSE and used 7.0 and later bought 8 as well. In fact, it was SuSE that got my mother interested in using Linux instead of Windows and she’s been using *SuSE ever since.
I left SuSE in 2004 because it seemed to slow for me, especially YaST (though I think YaST is one of the greatest things that SuSE did). I moved over to Fedora for a couple of years then Debian, then played with Ubuntu. Used Ubuntu for a year until it finally irritated me enough to switch back to Debian on my desktop (from time to time, I tried openSUSE, but wasn’t seeing performance/speed improvement).
In June, I got a Thinkpad T61 preloaded with SLED. I put Mandriva on there and Mint. Not too bad, until I put 4GB of RAM in there. After a kernel recompile with PAE, it read the 4GB ok, but my x3100 GMA was shot. I guess there’s an issue with it when there’s high RAM (at least on 32-bit kernel).
So, I decided to install a 64-bit distro. I had used a few 64-bit distros and had problems with all but Fedora. So, I decided to put Fedora. But, I decided to try openSUSE 11.0. I’m glad I did. I originally intended to play with both for a couple weeks and decide which I wanted. But, after 24 hours, openSUSE has me hooked. I tried KDE 4.1, but it just wasn’t doing it for me, so I’m now using KDE 3.5. Everything is working perfect. I am very impressed with how much faster it is now (especially with YaST’s speed). 
I just want to tip my hat and say “Thank you” to all the developers out there. I also want to say “hi” to the community. I’ll be around for a long while. I don’t see any reason to keep searching for distros. I am now dual-booting SLED 10 and openSUSE 11 (SLED is, more or less, my “fallback” if something happens to openSUSE when I’m on the road).