Ubuntu
I’ve been threatening to load a Linux variant on the main computer in the house for a few years now. It is a 5-year-old Dell that was running XP. I reloaded XP on the thing at least three times. Every time it eventually crawled to a halt. Windows profile corruption most likely. Finally, I am free of Windows on this machine. I installed Ubuntu on it tonight. Good things to come from that – like running the box for another 5 years and being able to do everything I need to on it (except listen to my DRM iTunes tunes…).
Categorised as: computing, daily life, frustration, geek, good things, smiles
I run a dual boot with win7 (on those rare times i need a windows platform.) There’s very little you can’t do with Ubuntu and do it faster. Apple is too closed of a system and Windows is too bloated anymore.
I will probably install Sun’s Virtual Box or VMware on ubuntu and run a VM of windows when necessary. I considered a dual boot system but didn’t want to deal with it that much. I used to run RH before I had to share the computer with my wife. Now we have a second laptop that she uses so I was free to move forward with linux.
I also think apples are just too expensive.