OpenSUSE 10.2 has continued to work for me. I admit I have not had to deal with any of the areas you mention. I was just starting to look at how to put a bootable Linux on the new 2GB Flash fob I bought this last weekend, and was thinking to use the 10.2 laptop to build it, but I think you just waved me off that one! In fact, it looks like Ubuntu may not be a good choice for that one either.
The laptop here at the office runs OK, but at the end of the day I find myself using Ubuntu 6.10 desktop more and more. 6.10 does things that make me crazy sometimes. It was a real pain to get VMWare server going, so I backed off Server and just use the pre-packaged VMWare player that is in one of the Ubuntu archives.
So, I have in a way left 10.2 behind, but not for 10.1 like you, but for a whole other distro.
10.2 is a view of where SUSE is headed with their product line, so it is interesting to have it around. At the end of the day though, I just seem to float way to using Ubuntu or Mint though. That can't be good for OpenSUSE. Technical issues on the right, usage issues like SLAB on the left.
Really: I still hate SLAB. There should be a package someplace that restores the GNOME menus the way they were. But I have not found it, despite a fair amount of poking at it. They have chased me back to KDE on OpenSUSE 10.2. I like KDE, so that is not terrible *for me*, but I think it is not smart to treat folks that might love Gnome as their primary desktop manager to make your version of Gnome so... errr... non-standard shall we say. Sure, have it as an option for Gnome. Have it as a default even. But have a way off it! KDE had a non-standard look and feel under 10.2 as well, but it was easy to get back to a standard KDE desktop.
But I digress. I hope you are able to get your issues with 10.2 resolved. If not, I'd be interested in knowing that you gave up.
The laptop here at the office runs OK, but at the end of the day I find myself using Ubuntu 6.10 desktop more and more. 6.10 does things that make me crazy sometimes. It was a real pain to get VMWare server going, so I backed off Server and just use the pre-packaged VMWare player that is in one of the Ubuntu archives.
So, I have in a way left 10.2 behind, but not for 10.1 like you, but for a whole other distro.
10.2 is a view of where SUSE is headed with their product line, so it is interesting to have it around. At the end of the day though, I just seem to float way to using Ubuntu or Mint though. That can't be good for OpenSUSE. Technical issues on the right, usage issues like SLAB on the left.
Really: I still hate SLAB. There should be a package someplace that restores the GNOME menus the way they were. But I have not found it, despite a fair amount of poking at it. They have chased me back to KDE on OpenSUSE 10.2. I like KDE, so that is not terrible *for me*, but I think it is not smart to treat folks that might love Gnome as their primary desktop manager to make your version of Gnome so... errr... non-standard shall we say. Sure, have it as an option for Gnome. Have it as a default even. But have a way off it! KDE had a non-standard look and feel under 10.2 as well, but it was easy to get back to a standard KDE desktop.
But I digress. I hope you are able to get your issues with 10.2 resolved. If not, I'd be interested in knowing that you gave up.