The install went smoothly and it asked me if I wanted GNOME, KDE 4, KDE3, XFCE or No graphical system. I chose KDE3 as it is a lot more stable than KDE4. It automatically chose a suitable partitioning scheme and it installed in around 30 minutes.
The desktop was clean and pretty close to the last KDE release in 10.3. The graphical package manager was the same which disappointed me as I never liked the Yast Qt package manager. It included some KDE4 components which are considered stable such as KDE4 games and KDE4 Remote Desktop utilities.
It include a few proprietary components which I usually install afterwards. It included the JRE and browser plugin, Flash Player and the Fluendo Free MP3 decoder.
I wanted to try the GNOME version so I re-installed and chose GNOME. The GNOME version I liked better and the graphical package manager was very nice, much better than the Qt one. It was blazing fast, almost as fast as Fedora 9. It included most of the software I usually install afterwards apart from of course multimedia codecs and libdvdcss.
I opened the package manager and it asked me what repositories I wanted to add so I ticked the boxes for Packman and Videolan. The newer libzypp in openSUSE makes the packageing system up to 10 times faster that the older on.
It had an error when downloading some packages from the opensuse-11.0-oss repository which was a shame as it never worked again. It downloaded about half the packages then it had the error and the package manager could never download anymore packages again. If it wasn't for that problem I probably would have kept it installed as my main system.
Overall it is a great distro and has many inprovements over 10.3 and the package manager bug is probable just my computer.
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