Ditching Gentoo On The Desktop
For the past four year I have been a huge proponent of all things Gentoo and I still am. But I’ve decided that Gentoo on the desktop (or in my case, laptop) is no longer for me. That’s not to say that it’s because Gentoo doesn’t belong on the desktop because that certainly isn’t the case. As far as I’m concerned, if you want a source-based distribution on your desktop, Gentoo is the way to go – hands down. And I still believe that Gentoo is a solid platform to run on enterprise servers; I have three servers all running Gentoo.
As my life gets busier and my priorities change, I find that I no longer wish to spend any time mucking around with the configuration of various functionality, libraries and applications on my laptop. Instead, I want everything to just work so I can concentrate on using my laptop to accomplish stuff, and I mean stuff other than making my laptop work properly. So, with that in mind, I switched to Kubuntu. It’s not fair to compare the two distributions as they have different goals and different target audiences. But I will say that when I installed Kubuntu 7.04 that everything pretty much worked out of the box, including the scroll wheel emulation on the touch pad and wireless network support. I haven’t tried suspend/resume yet but I suspect that it will work equally well. So I must say that overall I’m very pleased.
Wed, 09 May 2007 15:24 Posted in Linux
