Well, my openSUSE 10.2 box arrived, and I've installed it on Amanda's machine. Have to say it's a very easy install. The one annoyance I had was that, because I was doing a DVD install, I was unable to add network based add-on products (such as Build Service repos). This was basically down to the network interface not being brought up because of it not being a network install. I'll be mentioning this on the Factory list of course. It does mean that you have to finish the install and then log in before being able to add the NVIDIA drivers. That said, the %post scriptlet in them might have broken when installing without the xorg.conf in place.

Anyway, once I'd finished installing, adding the extra repos was a breeze. I installed Pascal's Smart packages. These already include a bunch of repos which I wanted, including PackMan. Having done that, I added the NVIDIA repo along with GNOME:Community and my home repo (Hint: just add the .repo file as a URL in Smart).

I also created a new user on the machine to see the default GNOME look and it's really smart and professional. openSUSE 10.2's a fantastic distro, the small annoyance allowed, if you've been waiting to take the plunge, now's the time to go for it.