I enjoyed the piece below a great deal. But the one thing that I found myself agreeing with a great deal - standardizing a package format.

With LinuxWorld just passed, and lacking the excitement of PDC, I decided to give Ubuntu a tryout considering it recently had a sign on the highways of California and how everyones touting it as the best and the brightest star in the Linux universe. Well after two days of trying, I finally got it installed. Wireless networking was giving me a fit. So I installed it on my trusty experimental laptop, IBM Thinkpad A20m with a Linksys G wireless card. I had to disable the card even though it was natively supported by Linux because of the driver, apparantly in Ubuntu 6.06 its bad so I used NDISWrapper to get the card running. Overall its performed rather well and I do like the plethora of packages in Synaptic. GNOME is so much slower than KDE and you can tell as PC-BSD has run on this laptop and was much faster. Since Ubuntu is one distribution that takes the “Everything should be free and proprietary software sucks”you basically have to go get the drivers and software that make it really usable such as win 32 codecs, MP3 playback, DVD Playback, Java, CrossOver office, Real Player 10, nvidia drivers etc. I may move over to Kubuntu just basically to get rid of the Medieval looking interface of GNOME, although it does have some cool apps, like Rythmbox, F-Spot, Beagle (when it works) and Gnomebaker…. Source: The Tech Journal