You can often find a better match by trying a different distro. That is because
there is enough of a difference between the distros to make them vary from mild
to significant and they often have different target groups.

OpenSUSE is not a newbie distro IMO. It tries to be but utterly fails. First
off, it uses RPM which is getting better, but SUSE's implementation of it is not
as good as Fedora or Mandriva. They have dialogues that pop up to help resolve
dependency issues which are more common in RPM than in DEB, used by Debian based
distros such as Ubuntu. These dialogues can and often do make the situation
worse instead of better, making the system unstable and sometimes unusable,
depending on how much you have installed. If you stick to their installed
packages it has lots of things going for it. However, as you go beyond that it
can be daunting for a newbie, IMO.

A better choice for an RPM distro would be Mandriva or PCLinuxOs which is based
on Mandriva. These have their own unique sets of problems, but they are better
for someone not experienced in Linux, than either SUSE or Fedora.

Another distro to try would be SimplyMEPIS which is still in the Debian camp
(not RPM based) and it has more tools than Ubuntu, similar in this respect to
Mint which is based on Ubuntu, but has more tools.

Debian itself has also just released Debian 5. It is worth a try, but it is not
a user friendly as even Ubuntu, let alone some of the other user friendly ones
mentioned.

Each distro is different, just as each user is. Depending on the way you work
and your hardware configuration, you may find a better match with another
distro, or not.

Be careful what you wish for. Ubuntu is easy compared to many distros.