Please, this is a serious question, and I will be annoyed if it turns into a flame war.
I know there have been discussions in the past of the problems with Qt in a certain distro. I won't name it, but it starts with U. I have been happily using that distro for several years, but have recently decided it's time to expand my horizons. I dimly recall from discussions here that the three most strongly recommended distros for Scribus are Fedora, Debian and OpenSuse. I love Debian package management, so I installed Debian testing. Unfortunately, there is a bug in Gnome 2.28.x that causes the user to lose the desktop, window manager and panels. I spent days trying to find a workaround or repair it, and finally gave up. Then I installed Debian unstable, only to have it fail to boot. Plus, the only good thing I could say about testing is that it has great package management. Otherwise it is not very polished. Two days ago I installed Fedora 12. Just now I lost the window manager and panels again. Sure enough, it uses Gnome 2.28.0. >From past experience it is unrepairable unless I reinstall. And then it will just happen again. I have no idea why it happens to me. It must be some application that I install. But I do know that I absolutely need all the applications I install. So if a distro can't handle one of them, then it's not the distro for me. For the current saga I bought a new hard disk for my laptop. My old hard disk with the U distro is sitting on the shelf. I can always go back to it. But I want to move on. Oh, and I have tried and tried to love KDE, but it is hopeless. I just can't stand looking at it. So is OpenSuse my next stop? Or what?
