After 4 month update cycle and trustation I gave up and moved forward to next distro. I installed Kubuntu. Kubuntu ships with KDE too, so user experience is much alike openSUSE, but runs smoother. A lot of functions work out of box, Kubuntu offers more software packages, updates so far without problems and it uses grub.
It is worth trying.
Jalo
… and what is your question?
On Sat 19 Jan 2013 03:36:02 PM CST, jalomann wrote:
After 4 month update cycle and trustation I gave up and moved forward to
next distro. I installed Kubuntu. Kubuntu ships with KDE too, so user
experience is much alike openSUSE, but runs smoother. A lot of functions
work out of box, Kubuntu offers more software packages, updates so far
without problems and it uses grub.
It is worth trying.
Jalo
Hi
The one good thing about linux, choice 
Enjoy your new linux environment and remember to have fun!
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This is not a question. Sometimes I share infomation without question. 
I think this topic should belongs to following forum
https://forums.opensuse.org/english/other-forums/community-fun/general-chit-chat/
That is OK, but please go to the correct (sub)forum.
This will be moved to General Chitchat. Please do not post until moved.
Moved and open again.
Citation needed.
Kubuntu offers more software packages
No, it just copies all of its software from Debian and recompiles it.
Either way, I think it is a good distro.
Citation unlikely for such an opinion, but an explanation as to what is smoother than what, would be nice.
I think Debian may have more packages on offer than openSUSE or any distro, but it’s no big deal unless the extras are so important. Again more explanation from the OP is required to make any sense of it.
Kubuntu is a good distro, for daily end user usage. But, dear all, did I find out the difference when having to do the next things on both an openSUSE and a Kubuntu install on the same machine:
On openSUSE:
On Kubuntu:
The first one may not be very common, but NFS is a wonderful thing in a linux network.
I have been with OpenSuse/Suse since 1999 - have no plans to change that habit.
and it uses grub
What is the deal with the grub2 haters? I know I am wading into deep water here but really this is a good modern program. There is no need to thrash about because you do not understand a new boot loader. It works well and thats it, no big deal.
I would not change a distro over the boot loader, I would just learn the boot loader.
Besides does the new kubuntu really use grub, I thought they moved to grub2 a couple of versions ago.
Kubuntu is based on Ubuntu and uses Grub2 since a longer time.
GRUB 2 is the default boot loader and manager for Ubuntu since version 9.10 (Karmic Koala).
I don’t think this is about grub v. grub2. The OP [and his hardware] seems more comfortable with debian/ubuntu based systems and he also runs Mint. So, going with Kubuntu is unsurprising. For some strange reason, he appears to expect that other distros should do things their way.
I have multibooted with Kubuntu in the past when it happened to have better support for a graphics chip in my desktop pc, and openSUSE didn’t for a release or two. It was still supported and funded by Ubuntu then. It performed well but its KDE was raw and not specially integrated, a distro without a character of its own. Someone once described it as the unloved stepchild of Ubuntu, which seemed a pretty fair description at the time.
The last time I used kubuntu was when it was at version 7.04 and from my experience it worked better if you installed ubuntu, removed all the gnome packages and installed KDE