Is it just me

[Konner]

Or is opensuse a really ... buggy and eh. bad distro now?

OpenSuSE 11.0 and OpenSuSE 10 was fine but this seems to have some issues..

I'm running 11.3 and it looks nice but it runs like crap.

I'm on a AMD Phenom X4 and I have 4 GB of ram, with a Nvidia Geforce 220 GT.

And every distro i've used recently have had issues like crazy. I'm pretty experienced with Linux but I can't figure this out

Fedora 13 - Flash crashes all web browsers. Tokbox.com doesn't work at all.

Xubuntu 10.04 - Won't mount anything. CD rom, flash drives. << Really upsets me. Xubuntu used to be one of my favorite distros. No clue if it was a bad install or somethings is going wrong.

now OpenSuSe 11.3 - Things crash and feels really buggy. Even compiz runs sort of slow.

[Segfault]

I'm pretty experienced with Linux ...

Go Gentoo. Gentoo is DIY distro, if it does not work there is nobody to blame but you. Meaning everything can be fixed.

[gogalthorp]

Well what is wrong exactly??

The new nouveau driver is not working well with some cards. try entering nomodeset. If this works edit the /boot/grub/menu.lst to add the new kernel flag nomodeset,. And install the NVIDIA propritary drivers. This night help

SDB:Configuring graphics cards - openSUSE

And yes this is effecting all distros using the newer kernels use the newest OS drivers. Also Intel drivers are a problem with latest kernels and this time ATI seems to be doing the best, unlike in 11.2 where NVIDIA and Intel work well and ATI gave people fits.

[Segfault]

This really has to do with kernel configuration, as of today some drivers need KMS enabled and some do not.
Just build your kernel in accordance what your Xorg video driver needs and there will be no problem.