I think I’ve about had it with Ubuntu Hardy Heron. It’s a sad day when my windows box is more stable than my linux laptop. I also made the mistake of upgrading my work machine from Gutsy Gibbon to HH last week and I’ve been regretting it ever since. Three times today alone I had Nautilus crash on me without the ability to restart it. When I’d kill the existing Nautilus process a new one would start automatically and crash until I rebooted the box. Reboots like that are unacceptable to me on a linux machine.

I’ve been playing with Ubuntu since the Warty Warthog days and this is the first upgrade that has not been a significant improvement. That makes me want to not give up on Ubuntu completely and instead downgrade back to Gutsy until the issues get worked out. Then there’s the bandwagon part of me that wants to jump on the the PCLINUXOS bandwagon.

Tomorrow after work I’m going to install PCLINUXOS on my home laptop and if things go well I’ll consider putting it on my work machine too. PCLOS has it’s .roots in Mandrake… aka Redhat, but it’s a full fledge distro in its own right now and it uses APT. I can work with anything so long as I have APT.

Thanks to Hayden Simons for the photo