The installation in itself is "linuxoidly simple", it asks for very little information and requires you to do very little stuff in order to install. This doesn't mean that you actually can't. ;) The only thing I really did miss was the ability to test my keyboard settings after choosing them; as Ubuntu allows (and Kubuntu displays your keyboard layout so you can check).

What I really HATED is the fact that it generated my computer name and didn't ask for me to specify it. A$$.

The installation was VERY fast, as it usually is on virtual machines, and it quickly booted me into - whoah?! It wasn't done yet? Apparently SuSE requires to install, then reboot, then spend some time doing "automatic configuration" of your system which takes a serious few minutes. Not cool. Eventually it boots up and starts with a rather irritating "have a lot of fun" screen, like windoze.

OK, OK, I'm being biased.

The look and feel is pretty much like Kubuntu; which made it easy to use, however:

Package manager

The package manager (from yast) is MUCH more user-friendly than Kubuntu's. In Kubuntu, I just use Synaptic, but yast is much better than synaptic. Well done, guys! :)

Konsole

Installing yakuake from the pak manager was easy enough, as well as customizing it. Setting GUI preferences works better than in K/Ubuntu.

Virtualbox has issues with the F12 key that launches yakuake, though - when I hit it, my Host yakuake gets launched - so you'll need to launch it by touching the screen edge.

As a Ubuntu user, I hate the sudo su concept.

I'm happy to say that changing computer name through yast now works when you change it in a single place; you had to change it in ethernet settings AND hostname dialog (so you'd do it through konsole and leave it be)

The yast2 -i command launches an incredibly ugly dos-like thing in the konsole which "guides" you through the installation. I want aptitude back. :(

• Open SuSE comes with installed Firefox; like Ubuntu and unlike Kubuntu where you get an installer that sometimes doesn't work?!
• Without any extra installations, yoube (flash) does work! Not so in Ubuntu, while Kubuntu has no problems once you DO manage to install a browser (duh)
• Start Amarok and it... can't play mp3. OK,
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