[NTLUG:Discuss] <sigh> Which distro this time?

[Leroy Tennison]

My previous message about the hard disk may be the smaller of my two
worries.

Just ran the Open SuSE Updater for 10.3 and was informed that this was
the last security update.  Looking on the Open SuSE site it looks like I
could upgrade to 11.2.

Do I want to do that?  I seem to remember horror stories about upgrades.

11.2 comes with KDE 4 and Thunderbird 3 beta 4, I've heard about KDE 4
(not good) and wonder about Thunderbird 3 beta, any comments from
others?  KDE3 can be installed but isn't supported.

The last time I switched OSes was to SuSE 10.3 because IDE/ATA support
had recently changed and there were plenty of issues with the
distributions using it (Red Hat, CentOS).  SuSE hadn't gone to it yet
and so my hard drive and CD devices worked.  Has this issue been resolved?

What about other alternatives.  I've used Red Hat and CentOS, only
played with Debian/Kubuntu.  Any thoughts given my situation?