Linked by Andrew Davis on Mon 22nd Nov 2004 20:12 UTC
I admit that I'm a geek. I use Linux. I use Solaris. I use FreeBSD. At times, I use Windows. And without a doubt, I download and try almost every Linux distribution when they come out. Over the last few years, I've tried all of the RedHat/Fedora releases, 2 different Lindows/Linspire releases, Mandrake, Gentoo, Xandros, Suse, Ubuntu, and the list goes on.
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The idea of not reinstalling has little to do with your initial points and much more to do with packaging policies and package management. It's entirely possible on Mandrake, too. My laptop hasn't had a clean install since MDK 9.0; it runs Cooker and is updated more or less daily, it's now running Cooker everything (including XFce 4.2) happily. The problem of how cutting-edge you want to be isn't easy. Look at the fuss that came up here and elsewhere because MDK 10.1 shipped GNOME 2.6 and KDE 3.2 instead of GNOME 2.8 and KDE 3.3, for instance, despite the newness of those releases.