After becoming fed up having to fix a broken system on almost every major update, I decided it was time to move away from Ubuntu, at least for a while. It’s a great distribution, sure, and the problems I was having may be fixed in the Feisty Fawn release, but that damned Update Manager screwed my system one too many times for my liking. It was clear that it was time to make the switch. But which distro to pick?

Taking a look around DistroWatch, I noticed OpenSUSE had

gained a lot of popularity. SUSE was one of my first Linux distros ever, back before Novell had bought it, around the 6.0 release I think. I was a little wary, thanks to the recent deal between Novell and Microsoft, but OpenSUSE, the community version, seemed to be a safe enough distance from grubby corporate paws. Not to mention, getting Compiz running was supposed to be a much simpler process on OpenSUSE (it did originate at Novell, after all), and that’s mainly what Ubuntu updates seemed to break.

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