Time to change my home computer Linux distribution has come again. After a year of using Ubuntu my annoyance became too big after I was not able successfully get USB WiFi module and DVB-T USB stick working.

First Ubuntu looked like perfect out-of-the box solution, because I don’t want to waste my time doing the initial “vodoo” with every piece of hardware and software. But later I found there are no packages for the software I want or they are in lots of other repositories which I must manually add to apt. And the hardware was definitely not plug & play :( And yet not mentioned the pain with upgrades.

So I now tried beta version of Fedora 7 and even Ubuntu 7.04, but non of them was able out-of-the box use WiFi with WPA and the TV was broken too. I also tried Arch Linux as it was recommended to be simple and having rolling updates. I was warned it has simple documentation, but this was too simple for me.

So guess where I moved on the following curve at the end …

Yes … welcome again, Gentoo.