My disk has died...

Yeah, sad but true, the nice device I've fitted in my LX1 had for some reason ceased to be. And it could not be revived. Anyway, the entire process of getting a replacement was pretty painless even though a bit time consuming (mostly because of the wait.) I just had to file a form on the supplier page, and send the disk in it's original packaging (!). Reminder for future: Never toss any of those away while your device is still under warranty. They then send it to the producer and some time later I got a brand new SDD. Not having enough time to fiddle with gentoo I've decided to give two other systems a go. Ubuntu (Gnome is way too slow for my machine! I thought KDE was resource consuming, but gnome even in 2D just stalls it). KUbuntu (for some reason Ubuntu isn't able to correctly map my keyboard. It acts as if I had no shift keys! And I've found painfully quickly how big of a problem it is when I tried to type: "/". I could maybe live without shif upper-case actions - caps sorts it, or even without "@", but pipe and slashes are a no go!). Then I tried to get the preview Windows 8 version on, but it refused to install simply because of this bug. I'm not a huge fan of windows anyway so I dropped it. The good thing I've learned during that process is making a USB installation. More on this soon.