I wanted to reinstall and since I use the same machine for everything, including earning a living, I didn’t want to take the time to reinstall Gentoo. I installed Ubuntu Edgy Eft – 6.10. It hasn’t been that bad. I have always liked apt, and a lot of things have worked fine. I don’t like a lot of the defaults, but I backed up all my configs before reinstalling so I was able to make things feel the same overall.
I have been using Gnome instead of FVWM or XFCE4 or Enlightenment (I have a tendency to flip between the three) and really it’s pretty usable. I installed brightside to overcome Metacity’s brain dead lack of mouse flipping virtual desktops. It does grate on me when I run a `ps` to see all that crap running, so I grep -v it all out :)
The clincher for me possibly keeping this set up are the fonts. Everything looks wonderful. I live and breath text, and staring at crappy fonts is no way to spend ones life.
Hey! A long while back you posted on another forum asking about a Berks Linux User Group. I happened to come across it and wanted to let you know we have a Linux User Group in Berks county now. It’s the Kutztown Linux User Group. A number of people live in Reading who are active in the group. Another user group is nearby exists nearby and that is the Lehigh Valley Linux User Group- although a bit farther for you from Reading.They meet near Allentown. You might want to get on the KLUG mailing list.