If you’re a “clicky-this and clicky-that”-type of user, why not just use Red Hat + Ximian Desktop? I was a big Debian fan for years, but got so tired of doing lots of little things by hand.

I’ve heard Gentoo is very cool, but it’s even more “hands-on” then Debian. Think: Slackware-level hands-on. Not that there’s anything wrong with that, but I sure as hell don’t have enough time to deal with all of that. :-)

While Red Hat often gets a lot of flack from folks, I think it’s not too bad once you uninstall a bunch of crap and install Ximian on top of it all.

This would be a fairly easy environment to do nightly-builds of Mozilla etc. Think of it this way: you can spend your precious configuration time setting up a spiffy mozilla build system instead of configuring your video card.

-jdb