>> May I ask what you are missing from Debian as a desktop ? > When I switched, Debian was in the process of taking 3 years to go from woody to sarge. After th

>> May I ask what you are missing from Debian as a desktop ? > When I switched, Debian was in the process of taking 3 years to go from woody to sarge. After that it would be another 5 before etch. It's true that I remember being unable to properly manage my installed Debians at the time Ubuntu first came out and only fully committed to using Debian on desktop some months before Wheezy actually came out. So I was delighted to see modern packages when upgrading to wheezy. It does look like I switched at the right time.