Okay. I've mentioned that my ignorance is limitless. I try to use a lot of Google, and "in the light of my intelligence, guided by my experience" I takes my shots.
This minimal install thing isn't working out too well. If it weren't for the fact that this is a tablet, and requires a bunch of extra configuration, it might be just fine.
I keep running up against things that just should work, like wacomcpl. Or suspend/hibernate.
Ubuntu seems to be headed down the Windows path, the Gnome path, where it becomes more and more difficult to custom configure things -- Trust Us, We Know What You Want Better Than You Do -- Hey, Don't Touch That! Stuff gets so broken down and dispersed that you have to be an expert to make what are fairly superficial changes to the system.
Suspend/hibernate is probably some sort of quirky kernel/scripting interaction that I've decided I don't want to spend a week working on.
Also, I managed to break my touchscreen driver while trying to fix wacomcpl. The switch from X to hal to udev over the last few Ubuntu releases makes figuring out how to configure everything pretty difficult.
Blerm. And yergh.
So, I'm going to do what I usually do: install Xubuntu, and trim it down, replacing as much Gnome evil as I can. I've learned some cool stuff, though, over the last week and a half. But I may go back to Jaunty, even, if I can't make it all work out in Karmic. There are some good resources for both of these distributions, but not so much when it comes from an Ubuntu Minimal perspective.
I'll still have loads to do, making sure everything works. And I'll share it all with you, who don't read this.
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