Fedora vs Ubuntu vs anything - where next with Linux?

[Alastair Stevens]

Hi All - I'm looking for feedback on the latest versions of Fedora Linux,
from people who use it every day and who are keen on systems that "Just
Work". This isn't a game any more; although I've been using Linux full-time
for 7 years (and part-time for over 10 years), I'm beginning to lose my rag
and starting to lust after the Windows 7 beta....

Somebody help me!  I love Linux, and have fought to advocate it for years,
with relatively little success. But now my smugness and superiority is
coming back to smack me in the face. It's 2009 now, and I have a computer
that still can't do many of things that my old Celeron 466 machine with
Windows 2000 could do in, er, 2000. My demands are not onerous: I just want
a CD player that can, for example, play CDs without crashing on track 2; and
a broader sound system that can, er, play sounds without crashing every 23
hours and requiring a reboot to make sound work again. And a mail system
that can, er, read and send mail without creating a stuck process that
*cannot be killed* and sucks 100% of one CPU until a reboot (Dovecot
developers, are you listening?)

Is it Linux, or is it just Ubuntu?  I've always regarded Fedora as a funky
but unusable (for production) beta project ... but perhaps it's time my
views changed?  Or even better, I should be a good boy and use rock solid
Debian 'stable' and stop whinging?

I still feel I'd be sunk without the raw power and flexibility that Linux
offers. But despite getting ever more powerful, it also seems to be getting
ever more *flakey*, and I can no longer tolerate that.  Where do I go next?

Cheers
AL

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