Gentoo is calling...

I bit again. Despite warning myself otherwise, I did it again. I installed Fedora 11. Hibernation works most of the time, suspend works, but the computer fails to wake up. This happens with either the lousy nouveau driver (hey, how about using the manufacturer's drivers by default? or at least, making them easy to setup ala Ubuntu?) or the binary nvidia one. I've trolled the forums. Plenty of people with HP/Compaq machines report the same issue and many recommend cures--none of which has had the slightest effect for me. I could downgrade to Ubuntu 8.04--again, but I kind of like having slightly newer userland apps.

But Gentoo sounds alluring. No, I don't really have the time to compile my system from scratch, but the nice thing about Gentoo was that I always figured stuff out. I didn't have this junk to put up with. If something broke, I got my hands dirty and fixed it. With Fedora and Ubuntu, that is a great deal harder. The tools want to make it easy, not transparent.

I probably shouldn't, but it sounds good anyway. I am once again thinking that I might like a Mac after all...