[Aliantha]

We had a ceramic top at our last place. It was ok, but I much prefer gas which is what we have now.

I didn't find the cleaning that much of a difference really. In fact, I found with the ceramic top, I ended up half scrubbing off the guide lines around the heating area.

We have large gas bottles outside our kitchen which supply our stove. Is that what you mean by a gasline? In some areas you do have the option of tapping into a gas supply pipe which runs under the footpath (which is what I'm guessing is your option) but we don't have that here. We don't even have town water. lol