Debian is *not* much good for the desktop. Though it has a graphical installer now (Only last year you installed the whole thing with the command line) it is still pretty much a server-oriented thing.
The software in the stable branch is so old, think OpenOffice 1 and GAIM still existing!
I have it deployed on a 24 hour Apache/DNS/DansGuardian/Email/FTP server and it is running very stable... but that level of stability is usually called "old" on the desktop.
OpenSUSE is what I used to use, and have tried subsequent releases since I left (But not 11). It has a nice theme and a nice corporate feel to it, looks very professional. The problem is it handles like a lobotomised slug on crack. Everything is so slow and awkward, especially the package manager. On my system it used to take about 3 minutes for it to load, and even then installing an RPM was hell.
Mandriva = has been. Don't go there, it is yesterdays news.
Gentoo = A bit too nerdy even for me. The way everything is compiled from source code is annoying. I remember some guy on a podcast who needed to burn a CD in work, and had to explain to his boss why he couldn't do it for 3 hours while K3B and the KDE-libs are compiled!!
The only one I want to see at the moment is GOS. Which is intended for minimalistic installs and comes with Google and MySpace apps.
It looks quite pretty, at least it used to. The new version looks like a rip off of OS X Leopard.
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