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Originally Posted by questio verum  Welcome to Linuxforums, Parish! 
The question begs to be asked; 'why the decision to switch after 13 years?' Or is it just an expansion into linux? After 13 years w/ BSD you must have developed some serious chops.  |
Well, the OS is fine, it's the application ports/packages that were the problem. It seems that everytime I upgrade a package (I was actually using the ports system - build from source) that either the new version didn't work, or crashed, or that something else broke. Plus there doesn't seem to be as much help/support around as there used to be - the mailing lists are getting quieter - and since I junked Windoze I need reliablility. The last problem, that has finally made me make the the switch, was that I installed a load of updated Xorg drivers and the wheel on my mouse stopped working (I never realized how much I used it until it stopped working). Before that, I u.g digikam from 0.9.2->0.9.3 and it stopped working with my camera - took 6 months before someone came up with a hack to the USB libraries to workaround that.
I've looked at Linux several times in the past but have ended up staying with FreeBSD as I could never decide which Linux Distro to use.
Having said that, I've got problems with the Mandriva packages before I've even got it installed
) but once it's up and running no doubt I'll be around asking some dumb newbie type questions 
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