Welcome home Ubuntu, all is forgiven

Me being the fickle person I am when it comes to a Linux distro I have snuggled back up with Ubuntu Hardy.

After a month of playing with OpenSUSE 10.3 things were going great, then I needed a package or 2 which were non-standard, which needed dependancies, which broke other dependancies and before long I was in depandancy hell!  It was at this point I thought "This crap doesn't happen with a DEB package manager".

I had a quick play with OpenSUSE 11 alpha 3 (with pain) and after about an hour formatted my Linux partition again, it is noway near usable on this laptop yet.

So I re-installed Ubuntu Hardy (using a MacBook pro I needed a version that would support all hardware out of the box), this time the Beta version.  Boy was I suprised at the change in such a short time.  Everything that had been a show stopper for me was fixed.  Not only that but there was an update today for Open Office 2.4 and it is fantastic, the font rendering is much better and I can't even remember any of the other reasons why I was put off.

I can have Compiz and suspend on this MacBook Pro!  This hasn't happened on any distro so far!

My only bugbear, and this is with all current distros, is that Evolution is very buggy with the Exchange connector.  At the moment I will find once a day it just refuses to work anymore saying it that Evolution has lost connection with the Exchange connector.  Killing every evolution spawned process doesn't seem to fix this either, I need to reboot.  I believe the libmapi library may well be used in Ubuntu Intrepid which should solve most of these problems.

All in all I am very satisfied with Hardy, and will be keeping it on this laptop, I'm even considering flattening the MacOS install from this laptop, as I can't remember the last time I booted it and its eating around 60GB.