"Well, first off, I gave up on CentOS. I reached a point to where it was not worth any further troubleshooting. I agree 100% (and always will) that CentOS/RHEL is a wonderful server platform, but it simply wouldn’t work for me as a desktop workstation.
"I was a little let down this weekend--I've wound up being ultimately disappointed by KDE4 (at least in it's current state--either 'Stable' or the SVN tree), I liked what I saw of openSUSE but I kinda need my optical drive to be functional, and I'm determined not to run Ubuntu. Yes, Ubuntu works for me (at least after a little tweaking--I hate brown) but much (not all) of the community surrounding it drives me nuts. I want a Linux distro I can be a part of--not just a passive user of, and I simply don't fit in with much of the Ubuntu crowd..."
