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I have tried alternate managers or environments on my own installations, but it's never as interesting to me as seeing how someone else designed their distro.    I like trying the whole thing mostly to see how the developers have brought everything together, if that makes sense.

As far as distroholism goes, just surrender. It's easier that way. 

--sjr

Especially in the summer! 

I can't quite get used to the habit of putting a slice of orange or lemon in the wheat beer glass -- it just doesn't seem right.   It's like ice cubes in wine -- go with the flavor the maker put in it, or get something else...

--sjr

@corenominal/bobobex -- I think it's a great distro and a great community.  My only regret is that it doesn't somehow force me to remember to make backup copies of config files before I start trashing, err...I mean, configuring...them.  That has more to do with my level of Linux-fu than #!.   I've learned more about the guts of Linux from #! than any other distro I've tried, so it's been super.  Plus, you guys really do a great job with the community, and that's very cool. Thanks for all the work you put in.

@fox -- Good catch about the start up times, thank you. I'll add something about that to future pieces.  I tend to forget about that because I find that I don't reboot Linux nearly as often as I do using a certain other OS.  Not that there's anything wrong with that... 

@blackbinary -- Fair points, too -- your mileage trying it will vary based on curiosity, level of tech literacy, et cetera.  It's very subjective, but my mental rule of thumb is trying to imagine what my mother would make of an OS or a user interface.  Moblin would probably be ok, but I'm pretty sure Openbox  is a bridge too far in the respect. 

--sjr

Not that one, but I've played with a couple of others -- K9, Browser Linux, one or two more.  Like the idea, but found the installers always balked at a hard disk installation.  I could be doing it wrong, but have never had consistent problems like that with other distros.  It's a great idea, though and very light and fast. 

Have fallen off the wagon and back to moderate hopping.  Still have #!, but tried out Moblin 2.1 on my Acer the other day and loved it.  So that may go on the machine for a while.  Like vrkalak, also went to Xubuntu 10.04 Alpha (on a desktop) and am surprised by how relatively unbuggy it's been.  As if that all wasn't enough, got a copy of Knoppix 6.2 in a magazine and that's sitting on the table staring at me, silently daring me to slip it into a drive and give it a spin. 

Hop on!

--sjr

Back to the caffeine theme, with a distinctly British tint:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eELH0ivexKA

--sjr

Bwahahahah!!!!! 

We fooled someone else!

Welcome to the fold, r0xb0x.

--sjr

"No man ever went broke overestimating the ignorance of the...public" -- P.T. Barnum

There's a thin line between "human being" and "consumer", and the bridge between them is marketing.

--sjr

Nice!

--sjr

Always on the left (I'm right-handed).  The biggest threat to my laptop is from my wife, who usually sits worshipping at the Temple of Apple in front of her piece of polished aluminum goodness, to my right.  I learned to keep liquids on the left the hard way, when she opened the lid on her Mac Book and knocked over my beer on the laptop before this one.   

The laptop didn't suffer any real damage, but I hated wasting good German beer.

--sjr

A little bit off topic, but I'm fascinated with some of the machines that K.Mandla manages to resurrect.  He's got a thing for vintage hardware, for sure.

Curious implication to your post -- does compiling/coding your own count as proper "distrohopping"? 

I'd think it's either closer to software nirvana or requires more intense intervention.  (Or maybe both?)

--sjr

No matter which way you decide to call it, that's pretty striking.  Amazing how much can be crammed into a small space now.