Back to our sporadically scheduled Linux ruminations.
Another update (sigh) of Gentoo has robbed me of a graphical environment (that is to say, xorg-x11 stopped working). I have a feeling that if I were to stop using the nvidia module, or stop using OpenGL, that it would work again… however, I’m not really willing to do without 3d graphics acceleration on my main desktop PC, so this isn’t really a solution. So far I’m unsure if it was the actual nvidia driver update or the udev update that did it; if I decide to go ahead and troubleshoot and fix it, this is something I’ll need to determine.
I’m edging ever closer to switching to Ubuntu, though I keep reminding myself that every other time I’ve done this I’ve eventually returned to Gentoo Linux. I’ll have to mull over it and try to decide whether or not I have time to upgrade this week.
If I do switch, it will be with a certain amount of sadness. Gentoo has been the distribution that I used to really dig into Linux and learn how it works. On the other hand, Ubuntu is Debian based, and I’d welcome the chance to spend some time working with that system for awhile, too. Decisions, decisions.
For the long run, I think I will eventually make the jump to a Mac OS X; I’ll just have to wait until the budget allows.
I don’t want to give the impression that Gentoo is necessarily an unstable system; Gentoo can be very stable. I have some fairly bleeding-edge software installed, and several packages in their unstable versions, to it isn’t too surprising that something would eventually just break. In my case, as things get busier, I’m just getting tired of things breaking when I don’t really have the time to troubleshoot them; more and more, I want things to just work.
