I am still running Linux for my primary home desktop but have dropped Sabayon and switched to Kubuntu.

Why the swap?

• The pain of updating packages and breaking the system (did it twice)
• Time wasted compiling packages with lots of dependencies (sometimes 24 hours)
• Conflicting packages preventing installs
• Constantly having to messing around with /etc/portage/package.*
  

I tested the most popular KDE based distros (inc PCLinuxOS & OpenSUSE) and chose Kubuntu for it's simplicity and large package repository.

It was a no brainer to install but not that great with my hardware detection. I had a lot of probs getting TwinView and my nVidia card working properly.

I would never use Kubuntu for pentesting, I will always stick with Gentoo/Sabayon there, as all the tools I need and use are in the source tree (which is not the case for Kubuntu).

Similarly for my headless servers I would only ever run Gentoo.

So the lesson is "horses for courses", use the right Linux distro for the task at hand.

Labels: Linux, Ubuntu