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Say Goodbye to Vista

I tried.

I really did.

But, I had to finally replace Vista on this new Dell laptop. It was just getting in the way. Probably more to do with my limited knowledge of Windows than anything, but I just found it to be lacking in places. It came down to this, if I was using the machine by itself and never had to connect to any network, it would have worked out just fine. Vista is good in a vacuum.

I downloaded Ubuntu 8.04 and am extremely happy with it. Had a couple hiccups with the wireless card and it not having XP drivers for ndiswrapper, but I had a spare USB wireless network adapter lying around that worked “out of the box”. Compiz runs like a champ, Eclipse actually works, I can play DVD’s and MP3’s just fine, I can still do live broadcasting for Lunchbox Radio, and all the hardware works perfect. Well, I haven’t tried to webcam yet, but I never used it anyways.

Funny thing about installing Linux on this machine is that Nicole now wants me to install it for her. She says its way cleaner and simpler than Windows. We will see after she has been using it for a while.