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I must confess. I've been unfaithful. |
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For a day. |
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After thoroughly trashing my system (~x86) for the second time by |
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uncarefully upgrading my box I decided that I'd try something less brain |
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taxing. |
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So I reinstalled with Kubuntu. |
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I'm reinstalling Gentoo now ... |
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I prefer battling with my own errors rather than someone elses. |
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I had to fiddle repeatedly with the installation routine just to get the |
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thing installed. It constantly refused to install on my laptop |
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unless I used extended debugging (on the fifth attempt). Then I just |
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wondered who decided I needed all that rubbish in my KDE installation. |
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All rubbish installed I tried opening a mpg from the net. "Totem can't |
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handle mpg", trying Kaffeine I get "No codecs installed". Looking |
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desperately for codecs in the install tools I came up empty. So I tried the |
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installation docs for Kubuntu - which aren't updated for the latest release. |
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So I went to the forums to look for the solution, but being acustomed to the |
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Gentoo forums I found them a bit confusing. |
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OK, I thought - I'll leave that for later, so I tried playing a DVD "can't |
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find the CD-player" at the location that /etc/fstab says it is mounted. |
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So I run an installer, it is setup with the configuration decided on by |
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Kubuntu developers, and it doesn't work out of the box. |
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Why bother? |
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Back to Gentoo. And battling my own errors... |
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I think I'll run the stable branch this time though. |
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Regards, |
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Martin S |
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