Ubuntu’s defaults are way too heavy (even on a decent machine), and it’s quite a pain to change it. The PS3 release is now integrated with other ppc64 platforms, so it is more generic too – and in fact was quite broken for a while – I assume it actually works at least now. I wanted it as a dev box/educational tool – to hack around with CELL code, and ubuntu is a real pain to set that up too – the documentation/packaging is all over the shop. I lived with it until an upgrade broke things in terrible ways.

Having said all that, I very rarely use it – probably because I always have a nice thinkpad X61 laptop within arms reach, flash doesn’t work (last time i looked), and the tv is too far away to read much text clearly. I hacked up a few little bits of cell code but got lazy.