It's been a long ride... I started in 1998 with Debian 2.0 and the dreadful dselect, went on to 2.1 and 2.2, and I was happy and in control. Then at work they

It's been a long ride... I started in 1998 with Debian 2.0 and the dreadful dselect, went on to 2.1 and 2.2, and I was happy and in control. Then at work they imposed me to use RedHat 5 to 9. A nightmarish experience of broken package dbs and way too much reinstalls. Only highlight was the awesome Ximian Gnome and Red Carpet, which lately more or less became the even more awesome Synaptic. When Fedora came out, I was fed up with rpm and started my own little Gentoo (from Stage 0) revolution. So much fun! Everything was optimized and fast. Like Flash-fast! But after 2 wild years of emerges, my HDD went in pieces and I learned the dark side of continuous recompiling: the HDD suffers. So I felt again the debianist inside me and in 2005 installed the most natural evolution of Debian. It was stable, it had apt, it was up-to-date. It was Ubuntu 5.04 (Hoary Hedgehog). Never looked back since. Today I'm very happy with 13.04, but I'm also now starting to long for a MacBook Pro. Because I'm older, wiser, and I need a laptop with top-class hardware and an OS that just works.