SUSE has done a great job maintaining its projects, and I especially like how they focus on building things that are useful to anyone rather than just themselves. With the recent troubles between Ubuntu and KDE, I wonder if Kubuntu will be able to maintain its status as the leading KDE distribution.
Yup. SUSE Build Service is IMO the best app of it's kind, I love SUSE Studio, and SUSE's Imagewriter is by far the best utility for writing bootable USB sticks...
Honestly, if Kubuntu disappeared tomorrow I don't think it would be a bad thing, KDE users still have SUSE, Archlinux, etc...
Edit - And of course SUSE is amongst the top contributors towards KDE, Gnome, Libre Office, and many other open-source projects, certainly contributing more than Canonical and often more than Red Hat...
I have used openSUSE on my desktop before, and I am running it in a VM again. 13.1 looks great. I love how they cater their GUI to power users and include quick access to things like virtualization. They also include FreeType 2.5, which I otherwise have to install manually. So far it isn't better enough than my own customized desktop to switch, but if things get worse between KDE and Canonical, I'll definitely switch my laptop OS.
