I'm using Opensuse 13.1 KDE on desktop, and collecting information about SLES

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How do you like Yast?

I think it can be better

Suse's popular in Europe

It's popular here, too.
I just think the Geckos cute but every time I see him on my desktop, I susect he's just trying to sell me car insurance....

In this life, what can't you say that about?
What would make it better, in your opinion?

For a datacenter, I think that any 'consumer' distro is not a good fit. I use openSUSE myself, and like it...yast is a good tool, and is similar to things found in RHEL/CentOS, but you can also manage the system through command-line.

That said, I wouldn't put a rapid-release distro on a server. Too many updates, too quick. Even with a long-term release, you'll be getting updates a LOT, on a production system. Changing things rapidly can cause problems, in my experience, that are difficult to diagnose. I'd stick with a SuSE Enterprise, CentOS, or similar 'server' distro. And I'd NOT run KDE (or ANY GUI) on it.

SELS sp3 would be fine on a server , but NOT OpenSUSE 13.1

you really WANT long term support on a server .

hehe, no, I mean SLES

The loading screen is a bit tiring. And I often run several tools in the same time, but Yast2 wants us to do only one thing once. I hate to be interrupted...

You should see the look on some peoples faces when you do that... it's priceless.

of course, CLI's powerful, and I'm reading the manual of zypper

I fell in love with the tty the day I was remoted into a machine, running a "top" and staring off into space and my boss walked up, looked at the terminal and said, " Oh, sorry, I didn't think you were busy" and walked away.

true but OpenSUSE is very GUI centric
SELS , now that is a bit different

hehe, you're clever

No... just lucky.
Sometimes it just better to be lucky than clever.