Information Technology

Someone asked me the other day "why I chose the Suse distribution of Linux?"
Good question, and it made me think.
Originally I bought a copy of Red Hat 5.2 to investigate Linux as an alternative to using Microsoft products. I do not remember why I failed to get it up and running as it is quite a few years ago. Suffice to say I gave up on it.
As a long time user of IBM products, I have come to trust their judgment in most things IT. They have made a few "errors" in my opinion, but that is neither here nor there. When I heard that IBM supported Suse, that was my clue to try again.

Follow up:

Since then Suse has been bought up, by Novell, and they have released it back to the open source community as OpenSuse. Both IBM and Novell, and Sun, who performed a similar function on OpenOffice, are reputable companies and are probably not going away anytime soon.
As far as KDE is concerned, it does present a similar interface to some of Microsoft's Windows graphical user interfaces, and therefore ought to present a gentler learning curve to new Linux users.