So I tried to help grimm install a "special" kind of OS for his "special" kind of workplace via FTP. OK... no big deal. WRONG.
SuSE is so retarted that not only do they NOT list the global mirrors by name for you... BUT YOU HAVE TO ENTER THE GOD DAM IP ADDRESS which also isnt listed!!!
So we figure... ok... there is no way you need to know the IP of the mirror for an HTTP install... WRONG.
And how rediculous is it that just before asking for the IP address of said servers, the dam thing asked for the IP of our DNS server... WHAT THE HELL FOR?!?
Eventually the dam thing started to download what i assumed was a core image figuring that after it finished we would select the default set of packages to install and be on our way with a fresh system... and yet again... WRONG.
It automatically tried to download 600MB worth of packages (with no option to back out) including such bullshit as KDE and OpenOffice right after grimm told it NOT to install any of that garbage.
Rather than waste more time on that pile of an OS, we decided to leave it alone and let it download all that crap... no dice. As we had fully expected, it puked at 48% install somewhere in the middle of the night.
If this had been redhat or debian the entire process would have only taken about an hour total to install the OS... update, configure and secure it.
Now I am not saying that you should or should not use SuSE... I am just saying if you use it and agree with it that YOU sir... are a "special" kind of asshole.