I’m a new user of openSuse. In my three years of Linux this is my first time to really give Suse a honest try. In my opinion, Suse is so far ahead of Ubuntu and Fedora that it’s not even a race anymore. I can accomplish so much more in so little time.
The hard part for me was that I had used Debian based distros for much of the last three years and coming to Suse was almost like starting over again. I got really frustrated a time or two but I’m really glad I continued on.
Fedora is a very solid product but they seem to complicate things unnecessarily. Ubuntu badly needs some quality control. If you like to tinker, those two are the distros for you. If you want a solid desktop to get things done, Suse by a mile.
And I have used Fedora 10 and Ubuntu 8.10.