Strange Cravings from the Deep

[Maupertus]

I was browsing a distro list and although I know I'm making things hard on myself by running an AMD64, I just wanted to ask:

Am I the only one that wants to try them all?

I mean, it's very nice to have a Distro chooser and although one of the reasons I want to use Linux is the Opensource aspect and hence a couple of distro's will never be used out of principle, I can't help wanting to try them all out.

I've used SuSe way back, and I just read somethings about the new boxed book+cd set and started to get "the urge" and I got the same vibe when I visited the Arch and Gentoo sites.

There are two reasons for this 'craving'.
One, it's to easy to install a new distro, at least in most cases, it's no problem at all, so that's no hurdle to take.
Two, there's to much to choose! Ubuntu is now the only Distro I use on this system, and I'm content with it, but I keep wondering how some of the others would be.

In a way I feel like some straying husband, although I'm happily married, I'm looking at everything that's coming my way ;)

So I was wondering if I was the only one with this ailment.

[midwinter]

I certainly want to try a few more but not all ;)

I'm loving Arch at the moment but in the next few days i'll probably try the 64bit port of that and I already have a Gentoo cd ready to go in the next few weeks.. I do just want to settle with one but I have to try a few to see what's out there.

The choice is great, though.

[matthew]

I've tried many...it's actually quite fun as well as educational. I say go ahead and try all that you want to try and you will then be able to understand the differences/similarities and make informed decisions on what you want/need. Enjoy!

[prizrak]

Yay I'm not the only one. I'm soooo damn bored with Ubuntu, damn thing just works for some reason.

[YourSurrogateGod]

Hehehe... I like this thread.

[Mustard]

I know the feeling you get when you have everything up and running and there is no more 'excitment' to be gained from overcoming some hurdle. I haven't made the step of trying another distro yet, but the urge is definitely there. I did install win98se on another hard drive to play Medieval Total War, so that filled some time up for a couple of days. :)

I've also started trying my hand at compiling from source the latest versions of different programs on my system, or scouring sourceforge and freshmeat for stuff to to play with.

[Iandefor]

Yay I'm not the only one. I'm soooo damn bored with Ubuntu, damn thing just works for some reason. I think that's a bug. The devs are busy throwing random semicolons into the code and seeing how well that works at breaking it :).