John, Take a serious look at sidux. http://www.sidux.com I'm certain you'll find a home. matthew
John Jason Jordan wrote: > 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? > > > _______________________________________________ > scribus mailing list > scribus at lists.scribus.info > http://lists.scribus.info/mailman/listinfo/scribus >
