Easy tasks are still easy, and not so easy tasks become less cumbersome and daunting when you have the right tools at hand. You’d think stuff like YaST and company would get more notice from the “it just works” camp of thinking. OpenSUSE on the other hand, now they actually do something other than rebranding other folks work.
Importantly, in terms of doing stuff that’s moderately complex, I’ve found Ubuntu no easier than most other distros out there. The things most _new_ users will point to as it’s strengths (particularly its package management) are debian through and through. It’s really just a somewhat polished desktop oriented debian derivative. Both are decent enough distros, but as most who’ve used Debian for any extensive period of time, Ubuntu doesn’t really bring much fundamentally new and different to the table. That’s a good point of comparison, openSUSE as compared to Ubuntu.
