[per loin]

SUSE has always been oriented toward KDE. Does that continue, or does it migrate to gnome?

[AFreeBird]

Last time I tried SuSE, I got the impression that it was geared towards GNOME, and that Mandrake (which I use now) was geared more towards KDE.

But that's been a while, and I haven't seen later versions of SuSe.

So in answer to your question: I don't know.

Personally, I like KDE better

[prolusion]

SUSE has always been oriented toward KDE. Does that continue, or does it migrate to gnome?

Doesn't matter. Run whatever enviornment/manager you want. Install the libs and apps. for both and run them from whatever.