I personeally love debian because of the awsome update feature (apt-get) you just type a few things and boom your computers updated. I have tried redhat, freebsd, netbsd, suse, knoppix, and several others in all about burned cd's worlth but hey it was worth it. If you want debian and are scared of the installer install libranet . Its debian based infact it is almost debian with a easier installer. It updates from debians ftp servers so theres no problem.
Suse on the otherhand i bought and if your a real noobie i would recommend doing that because there support is great although they all have german accents in the tech department on account of the fact that it is a german company.
If you want debian theirs absoulutly no reason why you should go through the install of debian when you can install it with Libranet

Good luck though and hope you don't go through as many cd's as me