Thanks Earl, those are good points. For me I like the challenge, and I'd say I probably have a hacker spirit. I have learned to leave my wife's system alone though, she's the CentOS of the family, I'm the Fedora Alpha haha.
Ubuntu is an alternative, in fact I'm installing it *right now* as a virtual machine, but I must say that for whatever reason, I hate it... It's my least favorite distribution. I don't know if it's because of the "earth" colors, or the "simplicity" where they decide what I should have things set up as, or their popularity, I don't know, but it irks me... I'm not saying it's right, it just does. But I still run it on my daughter's computer because it works for her. I'll usually run Arch if I need something *nix, but these days that is becoming less and less as I move away from active programming
Still though, when you're main complaints are that something is too brown or too easy to setup things are pretty good heh heh. I guess I could always quit complaining and bootstrap a Gentoo machine if I want challenges.
