After Mageia, I went back to Sabayon against my better judgement. Sabayon has come a long way since I originally downloaded it for an "out of the box" solution.
However, while attempting to get dual-screening to work, I killed the video driver, so it doesn't boot into Sabayon (GRUB2 is unaffected however). What I remember from the install slides for Sabayon was "extreme this, and extreme that", so in an attempt of (possibly) bad humour... Extreme breaking! (XD)
Anyway, as a suggestion from Rei (the owner/coder of ACDB) I downloaded PureOS. After booting the live CD, it notified me that my video card might be outdated and that it has reverted to classic GNOME.
There is no f*ing way that a AMD Radeon HD 6770 is outdated!
If I had an incinerator, that would be where the disk is headed.
Anyway, I've just downloaded a net-install version of Arch Linux (the full ISO itself is almost a full DVD), and may try it tomorrow.
But it is another interesting journey to find another distribution, since I don't feel like waiting for openSUSE 12.2 to fully mature or to wait for 12.3 to see if they fixed the problem.
Well, from DistroWatch's list, 12.2 is a tad bit behind the package versions.... Sure I could use Factory, but I'd like to stay decently stable, since I don't want things to come crashing down like Mageia did.
Perhaps I just need to find a filler and wait to see what Mageia becomes, or find a fix to make dual-screen work. I am unsure.
I do know that I would like to find something decently quick. I don't want to spend the entire month downloading, installing, testing, and tossing distributions left and right.
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