Sidux: Early Returns

I like it! I really must admit that I like many things about this distribution very much. It was extremely easy to install, and though I had to edit my xorg.conf to include 1280x1024 resolution, and my refresh rate was different enough to disiorent me slightly at first, I got used to it before long. I'll be changing it to 60Hz next time I use it, just to avoid that, in fact.

But overall, ease of use is there, it installed quickly and easily, with a ton of programs that I use normally (of course, as a branch of debian, firefox and thunderbird are replaced with iceweasel and icedove). It would not be painless to switch over to that full time (a lot of the community being in German, and my Deutsch being very, very thin), but it wouldn't be too intimidatingly difficult.

I did have one unsolved issue, which was installing beryl, but I have a feeling that I'm missing some dependencies.. I was able to get it installed, and run it, but it seemed to break the window manager altogether. This could be a lack of XGL, but honestly, I'm not sure what it is. I'll have to do some more reading before I play with it again.

All in all, I definitely liked it.