Hmm... I flattened Vista off my wife's x61s this last week. Took a while to get everything working with XP (Lenovo's support/driver site puts the suck in sucktastic).<p>I put Ubuntu on it (dual boot) and was up and running even installing all the updates in under 45 minutes. Everything on the system works fine (I don't have a WWAN card or fingerprint reader). Ran powertop and tweaked some settings and I get nearly the same battery life as XP.<p>Not sure why they'd choose SUSE over Ubuntu in the first place? Ask anyone that's ever touched Novell anything and you'll always get a shudder.