Re: I've finally snapped

Geoffrey Clements wrote:
> That's it, after 5 years me and Gentoo are parting ways. It's now the third
> time something has stopped working just when I need it. This time the
> printer, working one day and not the next. What did I do in-between? I
> recompiled the kernel to support autofs (this was an incremental compile),
> installed the autofs userspace tools and after that the printer, sound
> _and_ desktop notifications have all stopped working. Weird.
>
> So I'm on the lookout for another distro. for the desktop. I'm used to KDE
> so I want something orientated to KDE also I prefer deb based package
> management over rpm (I think I'm allowed to have at least one package-ist
> attitude at my age plus I'm feeling crotchety at the moment). I use Debian
> stable on my server so I'm thinking of using Testing but I'm not sure how
> to cope with getting all the non-free stuff such as NVidia drivers, Skype,
> Flash and so on.
>
> I'm looking at Mepis but can't quite work out if I need to pay to get the
> full distro. plus it seems to have only a few people working on it.
>
> [K]Ubuntu well, err, not sure if I want that - it seems to be aimed at
> people new to Linux.
>
> I know there are lots of other distros. perhaps too many. If anyone cares to
> share some thoughts I'd be grateful, ta!
>

I have tried many distros and finally settled with Sidux. Ideal distro
for beginner or expert based on Debian Sid has an excellent setup system
which will install all the non-free stuff if you so wish and also setup
many video cards..Compiz comes from the shame repos and everything just
seems to work..Also should you need help the irc channel is second to none.


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Regards
Ted Wager
High Peak UK
Using Sidux Linux
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