This weekend I switched my home desktop from Gentoo Linux to Ubuntu [Kubuntu].
I was on the edge of a hard drive upgrade, and had a 160 GB drive I was going to move Gentoo on to. But it had previously been formatted as xfs, which I’m starting to prefer, but evidently I didn’t build xfs support into the kernel. At the thought of rebuilding the kernel, and compiling all the xfs tools etc, I just decided to try out the Ubuntu Live CD that I got as a handout at the last Husker Linux User Group meeting.
The CD worked perfectly, discovered all my hardware – even the xfs drive, and just worked perfectly. It was then that I decided that for a home desktop PC, and where I’m at in my life right now, I have better things to do than spend hours compiling an app I want to try out – only to find I had a gcc or USE flag set wrong and have to recompile it.
Ubuntu just works. Of course I would never have given it a look if the guys from LugRadio hadn’t mentioned it IN EVERY EPISODE.
Of course, I did have to use Kubuntu… I just feel more at home in KDE. And after hearing that Mark Shuttleworth now uses Kubuntu as his desktop, that must mean something.
Anyways, I now have a simple desktop running Kubuntu 5.10 with 2.6.12-9-686-smp and LVM, and I’m loving it. I highly recommend Ubuntu.
