Some Linux ramblings.

I have been using Linux as my operating system for years, having got tired of all Windows faults. Have tried various distros, but have been using Mint for some time. However as  my installation was playing up I decided to try some other distros. First was Xubuntu, which I found pretty good and easy to use, but having to download various items to get the same depth as Mint was a pain. Then I thought I'd try a KDE based distro, and after looking at various different ones and reading many reviews I tried Pardus. Easy to set-up, great looks, but such a small repository it was impossible to add programs like Picasa. So I tried PCLinuxOS.. Not as easy to set-up as Pardus, but a really good if slow repository. Tried various desktops and thought I'd got around how the Plasma screen worked, and then it just started locking -up for no apparent reason. I tried 4 reboots and each time it locked up after a few seconds, so good-bye PCLinuxOS, and here we are back in Mint 11.04.