Leaving Gentoo behind - UPDATE
Today I freed myself from that incredible mess Gentoo had become on my box. Having shiny new software again should let me forget the pain quickly. Also, reconfiguring my GNOME desktop was a mere by-product of copying my home folder back onto the box (yay!).
UPDATE: Wow, it makes a huge difference whether you evaluate a distro thouroughly or just give it a quick glance. Lesson learned: Never enter a distro war without having used the other's distro on your desktop for a week. Of course I knew Ubuntu before, and I already installed it on several boxes, too. But only now, as my desktop distro, I realize how much they already got right. For example, my main argument to keep Gentoo was "But - I have a working compiler environment from the start, with all the header files and libraries!" Had I only known before that it takes 2 packages on Ubuntu to get nearly the same functionality .... Funnily enough, Ubuntu isn't any slower, so there's goes the second argument. Leaves USE flags. Though honestly, I rather prefer working dependencies resolvers than having to test for circular ones.
And finally, sound works. It even remembers my settings!
OK, now on the downside: So I wanted to watch some DVDs: I put the DVD in, totem opens (wow, autoplay on Linux - finally!) and instantly prompts me to download the codecs. If only now the DVD would play, it would have been a convincing demonstration to Windows users. But as some may guess, things go downhill from here (sigh) - you need the medibuntu repo to get the right codecs, add a key manually and even then totem won't play the DVD. I had to fetch mplayer (my most favourite player still after all these years) and then it worked. Sadly, less savy users will consider DVD replay to be broken in Ubuntu and give up. So please, even if the codecs are non-free (as in speech), make a proper wizard at least so everyone who can live with non-free codecs will be able to enjoy DVDs on the Linux Desktop.
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