Yup, same boat here. I remember scouring the web for RPMs for my various Redhat installs and always thinking, "there must be a better way." In doing some work o

Yup, same boat here. I remember scouring the web for RPMs for my various Redhat installs and always thinking, "there must be a better way." In doing some work on the Gnome 2 HIG around 2000 or so, someone suggested I give Debian another shot. At the time, the installation process was absolutely terrible compared to the install of Redhat; but, I'd installed Slackware as early as 1996, so I made it through. I'm not sure I've ever been as satisfied as the first time I ran "apt-get install XXXXXXX" and all my dependencies were hammered out for me. Ran SID for a couple of years before my love of Dark Age of Camelot drove me back to Windows for a while. Been using Ubuntu since the 6.04 days and mostly like it: I always referred to Ubuntu as "Debian with a 'just works' attitude." Sadly, I'm not sure that characterization still applies to Ubuntu; maybe it's time I give Debian another go.