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I've actually come full circle (as of yesterday) back to SUSE. I began using Linux around 2002. My first two distros were discovered out of frustration with my horrible Windows XP upgrade experience. Long story short, my first experience with Linux was Red Hat (probably 2.*) and SUSE Linux (both purchased in boxes). Since then I've used Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, Arch, Mandrake (memories), and just about every flavor in between. I've never messed with Gentoo or Slackware, but I've been around. That said, I'm currently finding my return to openSUSE to be a breath of fresh air. I may have rediscovered my new OS home (at least for a while). It's definitely different, but give it time, I suppose. It may grow on you... or maybe not.