The only hiccup was that after installing 7.10 from a CD-ROM, I was asked to upgrade to 7.10 on restart, which was puzzling. The upgrade kept failing (adept_upgrade) until I properly configured my repositories (really just checking a bunch of boxes in adept_manager, which would have happened automatically if I had a live internet connection while installing from CD-ROM).

The “version” upgrade from 7.10 to 7.10 then went through fine. I’m guessing that any time the package manager needs to be patched, a similar version upgrade needs to be done, since the package manager is the core of a distribution.

The only down side is that I recently purchased the latest version of Quicken, which probably won’t run through Wine (though I haven’t tried it yet – at best it would be a huge hassle). On the plus side, Password Safe does run fine through Wine, so I didn’t lose any of my critical passwords.

UPDATE: Everything just works. I’ve tested Standby, Hibernate, the media buttons for volume, screen brightness, etc. They all work seamlessly. Best Linux distribution yet.

The critical section (in run-mozilla.sh):

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## Run the program
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artsdsp "$prog" ${1+"$@"}

Just one more example of how Linux is a power tool. Don’t mess with it unless you know what you are doing.