Switched from Fedora to Ubuntu
I switched from Fedora to Ubuntu last week on my computer at work and I could not be happier.
Setup was simple. I really like the apt-get, gentoo portage and BSD ports model. RPM is just too much of a pain.
One interesting thing about Ubuntu is that there is not a standard root account. Just like you do with OS X, you have to sudo everything. That’s fine with me. And if you really, really need root, all you have to do is sudo bash and you are root.
This biggest annoyance is that I can not find a postgresql 8.0 package for ubuntu. I really don’t want to have to maintain all the startup scritps myself.
Otherwise, I’m very happy with it so far. Hopefully it will stay that way.
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I guess it wouldn't be as annoying as I was originally thinking to switch from FC4 on Monolith (my dev server). The OS is on one drive and all the goodies (samba share, svn repository) are on a seperate RAID array, so I'd just have to back up some configuration files to the RAID and reinstall. I might try that; I'd really like to make the machine be a MythTV server, but that looks like a nogo on FC4. --riney
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One really, really annoying thing about fedora/redhat is that they put some extensions in ext3. So if you have a partition formatted with ext3 by redhat, when you load another distro, on boot it complains about fsck needing to be upgraded because there is something in the filesystem that it can not read.