Well, after having wasted about three hours trying to fix an obscure Gentoo–related wireless problem, I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s probably time that I tried another distribution for the first time in two years. Gentoo is an amazing distribution, and I really do love working with it. But when you’re trying to get work done, and you can’t because of some silly little problem, it does get quite annoying. Equally annoying is when emerging a package that subsequently breaks everything.

So, I’m going to back up my documents tonight, make a ghost image of my Gentoo partition and install Ubuntu (Flight 6). I’m actually really looking forward to trying out Gnome 2.14 properly, and I might even give Xgl a go if I can get it working nicely with the Intel drivers.

Currently downloading the LiveCD which I intend to try out for a while, and then use the brand–spanking new installer to (hopefully) install without wiping my entire drive.

It’ll be a shame to lose Gentoo after all of these years but it’s getting to the point where I just need something that works out of the box – to a certain degree – without me spending half my time editing configuration files. I shall definately be keeping it on my server boxes, but I think that Ubuntu is definately the way to go on my laptop.

Well, that’s my evening sorted out.

9:02 pm | Posted in Linux, Warwick Blogs