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I was getting frustrated with Unity Linux (I can't update or my audio will break, fuck PulseAudio) and I wanted to experiment with a bunch of other Linux distributions. Every time I do something like this I get burned time and time again either by obvious bugs or random incompatibility.

The main drive was for the ruby mentoring project. A multimedia toolkit was selected which I couldn't get working under Unity Linux.

• Unity Linux - just slapping some old notes here for now.
• Arch Linux 2010.5
  • Failed because it's far too annoying to set up and lacks an official GUI package manager frontend.
• Slax 6.1.2
  • Couldn't boot into it. I gave up pretty easily.
• Salix 13.1.1 (LXDE installation disk)
  • Couldn't get my final tools to work.
• Lubuntu 10.10
  • Impressed, for the most part. Issues with my headset, forced to use the mic on my webcam.
  • All the tools I need work. Missing gtk 1.2, so one critical application won't work. Bah. [update: a user out there provided it so I got it working!]