After almost two years of holding onto Ubuntu 10.10, I finally gave up my love of Ubuntu/Gnome2/apt and moved to OpenSUSE 12.2 (rpm!). This is coming full circle for me as I started with Mandrake in 2002 which used rpm as the package management system.

Rpm has come a long way - no more dependency hell. But the star of the migration is KDE4. I have to admit that it has transformed from clunky and over-complicated to beautiful and refined in a most unexpected way (more so since I stayed away from it for nearly six years). I can clearly see KDE's refinement reaching new heights in a few more iterations.

After couple of weekends of tinkering and fine-tuning my desktop, everything works the way I want it to and my level of comfort is comparable to (if not more than) Gnome2. I can say that I'm content and settled with my new computing environment.