[Sussex] A change of distro (yet again)

[John D.]

Wotcha list,

Just thought I'd mention, that because I've recently had so many annoyances 
with Kubuntu (6.06 - Dapper), I've installed Kanotix instead.

Which means a couple of things, firstly, I can "just get" the packages that I 
was struggling so much with under the Kubuntu (libgimp2.0-dev and it's 
dependency of libgtk2.0-dev), but it also means that I need to learn a fair 
bit about how the world of debian goes.

Some of the things that "just happened" under various other distros (Gentoo 
included), need some manual input to "correct" the config - of varying 
different apps.

For instance, the main kde desktop. It all looks pretty similar to how it was 
under the kubuntu and SuSE before that, but if I check the settings for the 
display, it's telling me that it's set at 1024x768, which is weird because to 
achieve the same look, I'd previously had it set (under the other distros) to 
1600x1200 (Philips 201B 21" monitor).

Fonts are a little curious as well, inasfaras, the main gui stuff seems to 
have to be set to a couple of sizes larger to be reasonably readable, yet it 
would appear that I need to find out how/what needs to be changed for the 
default console/terminal font, as well as a lot of the toolbar fonts 
(differing apps), which are "piddly" - by default. The last time I ran 
synaptic to do my updates etc, a couple of them needed some input via the 
terminal in the bottom of the synaptic "installing" dialogue box - it was 
completely unreadable and I managed to get by, by accepting whatever defaults 
it may (or not) have offered.

I mean, it's not as if theres anything wrong with the distro "per se", it's 
just that it's defaults seem to be set to an absolute minimum - and it seems 
that it's not just the "proper" debian packages, but the kanotix"ised" ones 
as well.

Still, I suppose if I can get used to Kubuntu, sudo and limited repositories 
(along with a few other niggles), I can get used to an "almost" debian 
derivative.

Links to any good debian sites, that aren't written in geek/nerd would be much 
appreciated as I think that it's only manners to try and read up on as much 
debian based stuff before I start peppering the list with a plethora of what 
most of you probably consider dumb questions. 

regards

John D.

p.s. Oh and even the desktop fonts aren't as "crisp" as they have been under 
other distros (despite using something from the msttcorefonts package) - why 
that might be I can't even fathom.