Why Mandriva isn't perfect

Having used Mandriva for a couple of weeks there's a lot to like about it, like

• a nice default theme (so you don't have to use a couple of hours just to get rid of the Ubuntu-brown interface
• KDE done right: KDE looks good in Mandriva. With some other distros it's not hard to understand why people don't like KDE.
• Suspend/resume just works. Ubuntu broke suspend resume a couple of days before Hardy Heron was released, at least on my machine. (To be honest, I didn't reinstall it from scrath, that might work. But I have reported it on launchpad, and I'm not the only one who've seen this bug.)
• Elisa media player. It rocks!

However there's also something i miss about ubuntu, most notably:

• sudo. It just feels smarter than a shared root account. And if I really want to be root, I just write sudo su.
• Easy to use virtual hosts.
• Better documentation

I guess Mandriva would be a good all purpose Office and home user OS, but for development I still prefer Ubuntu, if only suspend/resume would work.

Changing from Ubuntu to Mandriva

The new Ubuntu Hardy Heron release broke suspend / resume on my hp compaq nc6320. The bug is reported on https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/219657.

For me, however this was the a good excuse to try something new. So I'm running Mandriva Spring 2008.1, and it seems to be a really good release. If you think Ubuntu is well polished (I used to think so,) then think again. Mandriva just works with my laptop too, it makes KDE shine (I used to use KDE before Ubuntu,) and after a year of brown it is really refreshing to have a blue default theme.

What I miss most is sudo(!). Another thing I found out tonight was that there seems to be no bittorrent client installed by default.