Is it me or is SuSE getting worse??

[monday90]

To put a little background on this I used to use SuSE as my main distro on both my laptop and desktop. I had used it since about 9.0 until SLED 10. I decided to find another distro after the Microsoft Novel agreement.
Well the release of 10.3 got me curious again so I downloaded the ISO and went to see what OpenSUSE now had to offer. After installing I found that to my surprise much of my hardware had not been detected (something previous versions of SuSE had done well). Considering that many other distros seem now to perform a better job I feel that SuSE is now seriously lacking in this respect. Going into the desktop I found not much had changed, most of the applications had been updated to more recent versions but it appeared not much else has been done. YaST is still a horror, and Compiz Fusion is not enabled by default or indeed easy to find.
I had thought that SLED 10 and SuSE 9.3 had been absolutely solid for the time and could only mean things were getting better. I was even a little sad when I chose to leave SuSE the first time round.
I must apologise to anyone using 10.3 and finding it does all they need. But I have been very disappointed by the whole experience.

Whats your view on Novels latest community offering?

[techieMoe]

I don't want this thread to become an open SuSE-bash, but I have also not been satisfied with recent releases of SuSE. The last version I enjoyed was 9.3.

[daark.child]

I use 10.3 as my main OS and so does my wife on her desktop (she is not a techie at all so I set the system up for her). For me, it just works as it should and I have no hardware issues whatsoever. When it comes to hardware I am a bit conservative, so don't usually go for the latest and maybe thats why I have not run into any problems. 10.1 was the worst release for me, especially with the package manager issue.

[monday90]

I believe their enterprise offering (sled 10) can still hold its own but that is a year old now. I know this is meant to be a developmental community release but I would have thought they would have come a little further in the year since I last used it. I was not intending for this to become a SuSE bash. They have done some fantastic things in the past. I was really looking to gauge the depth of opinion on their most recent offering.

[monday90]

I had not really played with 10.1. I would not say my hardware is particularly special, I have a three year old laptop and a four year old desktop. I think to date SLED 10 is the best they have produced.

[Oxygen]

I played with 9.2 and 9.3 and I liked it. However it was a little more bloated that it needed to so I stopped using it.

[gogul2k]

Never used suse myself and it's never really come accross to me as worth using.

Haven't exactly found a distro I'm happy with, though the best of the RPM based systems I've used so far IMO are fedora and mandriva (minus the bloat of these).

Before choosing suse I think I prefer to use red hat.

[dalinux_n00bie]

I've used SuSE since 9.3 And I love 10.3 now more then ever. It was in 10.1 that I was able to get wireless working, and in 10.2 that I was able to get my video card working. In 10.3 I found YAST to be faster and easier to use.

[apoorv_khurasia]

Back in my college days I used Gentoo and got my hardware to work to with it. Now I don't have that much time and frankly not even the commitment to do anything like that again. So I am always looking for as much as I can get out of the box. Open SUSE 10.3 has got most of my hardware (which by the way is quite new stuff) to work without my interference and I love it for that.

And, being from a gentoo background, I usually know what to do when things go wrong (so far nothing has, so pretty good distro for me).