Linux or my girlfriend, which will kill me first?

Now time for a real post! Let me say up front that since my girlfriend and I met, she's been running linux. I got her on it about a month after we started dating and she's never looked back. During this time she has ran multiple distros, mainly ubuntu tho. Well when Edgy Eft came out, she had a fit. She did not like anything about. So I set about trying to find a decent replacement. This was when I went through the fiasco of trying Dreamlinux and no offense to any of those guys but I had nothing but problems with the distro so I gave up. The problems I won't go into b/c I don't have time, but suffice to say I won't try again. I ended up settiling on Linux Mint, it seemed somewhat promising and everything seemed to work out of the box(she's running a Dell Latitude laptop with the intel wireless and an ati radeon video card). So as a temporary stop, we ran linux mint. The only reason I say temporary is that I could never seem to get KDE, her desktop of choice, running properly without killiing openoffice. I setup about trying to find a distro to last a while. While playing with beryl in Knoppix I got curious about running beryl and ran across the Sabayon distro and it looked great. All the speed of gentoo w/o the 3 days spent installing? SIGN ME UP!! Well...ok...so I did end up spending 3 days even if it wasn't all installing. My first install went through fine, the only problem was that the synaptics touchpad was slow as the three day itch. Well, I fixed that in xorg.conf and went about updates emerge as best I knew how. I ran emerge --sync b/c I was told to and then ran emerge portage, b/c after the sync went through this was what I was instructed to do. I went about the process of updating the config files and tried my first big install openoffice. BIG NO NO. Something went wrong(once again not getting into details) but it managed to crash the network manager. I've personally never ran gentoo so I have no idea how to get that working again seeing as how I didn't even have the ifconfig command anymore, so I reinstalled the system. Anyway to make a long story short I went about this process about 3 times before I learned that I either A) Don't understand the gentoo portage system or B) Hate the gentoo portage system. Eventually I did manage to get the basic packages loaded I needed and handed the laptop to my girlfriend so quickly you would think it had a disease. Well not 10 min after I hand it to her...something crashes, its kopete. Well then openoffice crashes. Ok, linux doesn't crash, this distro has to go. Now during this time I did attempt @ installing Fedora but to be honest, the wireless didn't work out of the box and I'm too lazy to try and configure it so now I will try the newest version of Kubuntu. Feisty Fawn herd 5 is out so I'm downloading that tonight. I'll be installing it tommorow. I know its a beta release and thats understandable but it has to be better than the other stuff I've been through. Anyway, expect to see a full review in a day or so!

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