Gentoo is dead, long live Ubuntu

It's like being let down by a really good friend that you really trusted, but, betrayal cuts deep, and following the gentoo meltdown on my laptop in italy (see below), I have now replaced gentoo on both my laptop and on my main work machine with Ubuntu. And it rocks.

My laptop is a Dell Latitude X300, and Ubuntu (6.06 LTS Dapper Drake) was installed in practically no time at all (20 mins) and everything worked: acpi, suspend to ram, suspend to disk, cpu throttling, wireless, volume keys, usb - everything. This contrasts with the days and weeks I spent (admitedly 2 years ago) getting these things (well most of them anyway) working under Gentoo.

My work machine (RM something or other) has Kubuntu on it, although, having been a long time KDE fan, and now having tried Gnome a little more under the Ubuntu guise, I may revert to Gnome there too - even if I do keep some of the nice KDE apps around such as amarok:)