Ubuntu...good...and bad

I love my Ubuntu netbook. That thing is rocking. In my opinion, it is the best distro that has run on it. Synaptic is easy, apt-get friendly to use, and I love the new notification pop ups. But there has always been a few issues that have annoyed me.

I know they got rid of root (su) to help users...but I miss it. There has been weird issues with my mouse pad. Every once and a while the mouse will only be able to go up and down, but not side to side. What!? And even if I reboot, its not guaranteed to fix it. Even windows didn't do that to me. There has been other small issues, easily fixed, but needless to say I need a new distro. Today I stumbled across this article...and it intrigued me.

I can't say if my experiences are typical [with Kubuntu]; I've heard everything from "It's the best" to "It's the worst." I know there are millions of happy Ubuntu users who are satisfied with how it works, and that is good. That's the whole idea, to enjoy your computing experiences and to get things done.

Well, I haven't been enjoying my experience thus far...and I think I am going to install fedora 11 on my desktop. Here is the rest of the article titled Leaving Ubuntu for PCLinuxOS