Yesterday afternoon was, for the most part, spent getting Debian set up and going on my personal system, and while it has more than its fair share of bugs and oddities (especially on my ancient mid-19th century hardware), it's still somewhat of an improvement over the Mandrake Linux I was running before.
[size=8pt]At least now I'm not dependent on a central software repository for *everything*. The Mandrake I was using is an older one (2008.1) and likely to be removed in the next couple years, rendering it pretty much useless. That was my main motivation, getting away from that. KeithE4'd probably be proud of me. ;o)