> ...or having to manually put the system back together after a Ubuntu dist upgrade explodes. I avoid this by running Gentoo Linux on my Linux machines. I've h

> ...or having to manually put the system back together after a Ubuntu dist upgrade explodes. I avoid this by running Gentoo Linux on my Linux machines. I've heard people say good things about Arch, but I've never used it. Ubuntu is just bad... I say this as someone who used Ubuntu for a few years waaay back when (and was _really_ pleased that I finally could recommend a reliably, easy-to-use Linux distro to nontechnical folks), but swore off of it after the second or third in-place upgrade (in a row) that left my system nonfunctional in ways that required the sysadmin knowledge I'd gained from going through the well-documented Gentoo setup process (and from tinkering over the years) to repair. Friends don't let friends use Ubuntu.