desktop dilemma

[ron.peterson at yellowbank.com (Ron Peterson)]

I don't deserve it, but I just got a (nice) new desktop computer at
work.  I'm having a hard time deciding whether I want to install RH or
Debian for my desktop OS.  Or...

I'm more familiar with RH.  It's what I first started with.  I haven't
used Debian much at all.  I just installed it on a backup news server,
though, and plan to get more familiar with it.  I.E. I pretty much know
what I'm getting with RH, and I'm not so sure with Debian.

I'm kind of thinking I'd like to try using Debian.  My dilemma (?) is
that I'd like to take full advantage of my spanking new shiny hardware. 
Perhaps this is possible with Debian, I just don't know.

One of the alleged advantages of using Debian is that once installed,
staying up to date is easy.  One of my primary questions is, once you
start installing things outside of the stable branch, are you
potentially eliminating that advantage?  If, say, I installed XFree86
4.x, KDE 2.0, 2.4 kernel, etc., will I have a difficult time reconciling
my installation with the stable branch, once it catches up?

Suse also piques my interest.  Why would I want/not want to convert from
RH to Suse?

I just have one HDD (for now), and I've had to reserve a couple of
partitions for unmentionable objectives, so "both" is not an option.  I
do have a secondary desktop currently running RH7.0/2.4, so I guess I'm
kind of leaning towards Debian, unless someone tells me my progressive
ways will lead me to ruin.

-Ron-
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