Linked by Neil Lucock on Tue 22nd Feb 2005 22:17 UTC
I'd better start by admitting that I'm a fan of KDE. It's not because it works like Windows, but for the quality of the tools available. However, a GUI is just a way of doing something and I think I've been a bit dismissive of the Gnome desktop up to now. I read a few reviews of Ubuntu, looked at their web site and decided to have a look. I wanted a general purpose (desktop) distribution and an opportunity to get to know the Gnome utilities.
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Not a big distro hopper. Gave the Live CD for Ubuntu Live a try and it detected my Netgear usually only live after I compile my madwifi driver pcmcia card but I did not have my WEP passcode at hand so no in depth testing. Off the live CD I got no output for the battery monitor.
Impressed with the simple look and feel and after I did the research that obviously this writer did not I was pretty impressed with the level of software available. Including gnome-photo-printer which I had to run an rpmbuild and make an rpm for myself in Fedora Core 3. I have used Suse but being a big gnome fan and being disgusted with all the behind the scenes stuff SuseConfig did I tried RH8 and stuck through with it up to FC3.
There are just a couple of things that annoys me about RH and I am ready to give another distro a try. But on my main home box I am not making the move until I have played around with Ubuntu for awhile.
My wife likes the Fedora desktop and I would want to be ready for any fussing and minor quips and issues before I make the move.