So far, Ubuntu is sexy, responsive, and clean; everything I love in both women and operating systems. Where XP used to go berserk every time I opened my old notebook, Ubuntu is, so far, amazingly agile on my machine. Admittedly, I am comparing a windows machine with years of bloat on it (though it was constantly checked with anti-virus and anit-adware programs) to a brand-new linux OS installation, I can never remember this machine acting so quickly- it was a bargain purchase 5 years ago.
The downside is an environment with so much potential power under the hood that simple tasks can become insane if I stray from the beaten path, or if I don't know the right path to follow. Case in point, I spent quite a bit of my afternoon trying to install SETI at home, only to discover that I had installed the non-GUI (graphic user interface, you know, windows and such) program that could only be run through the terminal. I finally found the idiot-proof program and was helping to discover extra-terrestrial intelligence by the time I left campus.
Tuesday, October 9, 2007
Ubuntu for me!
In my quest to purge windows from my life, I have installed linux on my old hp laptop. It's been sitting in my closet for about 2 years now and has no real function other than waiting for the trash heap, so I thought that I'd finally try out a nerd's paradise. Installation is going fine so far, I'll report back when I have more of a feel for the system, and whether or not it can breath new life into an old clunker.
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