It's 2011, and screwing around with kernel compilation is a waste of my time. It should 'just work'. The only time I recompile a kernel is when I'm working on

It's 2011, and screwing around with kernel compilation is a waste of my time. It should 'just work'. The only time I recompile a kernel is when I'm working on kernel code. If UNIX distributions are doing their jobs, a sysadmin should never have to touch it.