New Lifebook U810

Okay, I have my Lifebook U810 and very nice it is too except that...

• Vista takes an age to start with a lot of screen flickering and drive churning
  
• ...which means you use hibernate/standby a lot
• ...which means being nagged constantly as it seems to need a lot of patching
  
• ...and Explorer and Media player both crashed within the first 12 hours of use
• ...it's just plain annoying to use with too many clicks to do anything useful

So, it's time to put Linux on and since it's Novell certified (yeah, right) that means I'll try and use OpenSuse and will doc the process here - for my benefit when I rebuild on an SSD more than anything.