I think "early impressions" is going to go on for a couple of weeks, so I'll keep on updating this entry.

The good

• The installer is very slick
• Very fresh software; only distro so far that finds and serves up the built-in bluetooth in my Asus W6A
• I actually like the new start menu in KDE; very very usable
• 1-click install Just Works(tm)
• First time I've seen yzis duck its head up in a release-grade distro! Yay!
• Nothing I need which isn't available in main or community repos. Well, except for live-f1 which is a niche thing anyhow, and hardly work-centric.

The bad

• The installer can't configure a wireless connection with encryption
• The "9" and "0" volume control keys in mplayer adjust the wrong mixer control and have no effect
• Coming from Debian, openSUSE package management is still painfully slow by comparison
• yzis is included but does not work immediately as a kpart; to investigate, since embedded vim is a killer application for me
• I had segfaults from running zypper; need to reproduce and file a bug.