On Friday 02 Sep 2011 00:27:58 Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Thu, 1 Sep 2011 18:32:11 -0400 > > Canek Peláez Valdés <can...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Happily, there was a nice pretty lady from Samsung in the office 3 > > > months ago wanting to sell the 900X Macbook Air knock-off into the > > > company. The IT manager didn't know what to do with the demo she > > > left behind so I knicked it for myself (sans paperwork of course. > > > Makes it easier to prolong how long it takes to test properly) and > > > it's running Ubuntu. Memory issues are a thing of the past and > > > everything behaves just like it should. Even <gasp> flash. > > > > That saddens me a little. Of all the friends and coworkers I have, I'm > > the only one left using Gentoo. All of them switched to Fedora, or > > Ubuntu, or OpenSuSE. > > I completely understand how you feel. But, I'm enjoying this break from > Gentoo. Note I said "break", not "leave behind". > > It will take 3 to 6 weeks for me to make up my mind what monster Dell I > want next, assault Purchasing to make them approve it then have it > built in Ireland and shipped to ZA.
I must have words with Dell!!! Mine was built in China and shipped from China ... twice, because the horrendous courier they use did not deliver it. > That's about enough time I think to run into the Ubuntu "you will do it > our way with the deps we want you to have" philosophy enough times to > drive me back to gentoo. I have a laptop which is only used occasionally and (K)Ubuntu is a good use case for it. Keeping it up to date does not take long with more or less vanilla Kubuntu settings and because the user needs are not particularly demanding Ubuntu has filled the OS role admirably. Doing this with Gentoo would require much more attention and time from me. However, I would not use Ubuntu for my needs. Very much like Alan says, there is an annoying underlying feeling of "all your OS belongs to us". > But the next machine will not have KDE on it - > all this RAM nonsense started by trying to get Akonadi to work, for very > loose definitions of "work", such as "show me my mail sometime today" > > e17 beckons. Let us know which mail client you end up with. Although I now use e17 and before that I used a rather edited Fluxbox (I avoid bloatware DEs if I can help it) I am still using kmail because attempts to adopt other mail clients ended up in disappointment. -- Regards, Mick
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