I have been using openSUSE for quite a long time and even SUSE Linux before that as well… I recently did a fresh install of 11.4 from an existing 11.3… The installation process was pretty fast and seamless…
Few things I noticed were:
- Installation took comparatively lesser time than the previous version installations I’ve done for roughly the same amount of software I had chosen to install.
- Good that “Welcome to OpenSUSE” screen on first run has been removed (at least with gnome (not sure if it comes up if I choose KDE)) - I hardly used that.
- Support for my laptop’s hardware was pretty good in par with the previous releases or may be even better too.
- It installed the opensource nvidia drivers and it gave me the option to enable desktop effects - but enabling them didn’t change anything - I doubt it turned on compositing. Anyways I usually install the proprietary nvidia drivers - and compositing worked fine with that.
- I notice the Gnome-do looks pretty awkward with the compositing enabled when the Appearance is set to “Classic”. What I mean by awkward is I notice is a big white patch over the applet when shown and it only happens with compositing turned on.
Everything else required works good so far - I should say kudos to the openSUSE team for delivering yet another wonderful release 