Taking the Plunge

At some point, in the summer of 2007, I decided that I was ready to look at running a Linux distro again, especially since I just bought a new machine and was already learning to hate Vista. This was before I took over the guest room in our house to use as an office, so I had the new machine sitting on the coffee table in the living room while I started playing with it.

Because of its popularity, Ubuntu was the first distro I tried. Not exactly what I wanted, especially when it had real problems setting a decent resolution on my wide screen monitor. Since it's been a few years now, I don't recall which of the other distros I tried at the time, but I know it was three or four of them until I finally decided to try Sabayon. Not only did Sabayon find and configure all my hardware properly, it played nice music while it worked. Up and running!

I think I probably ran Sabayon for at least 6 months with no major issues, but eventually I decided to see what some of the other distros looked like, so it was playtime again!