Confessions of a Shiftless Mind

This will be my first geekery post here at the new haunt. I can’t remember where I heard of it before, but somewhere I stumbled across the latest and greatest “user-friendly” Linux. It is called Ubuntu. They have a number of cool things about them that appealed to me.

• You don’t need to download and burn the OS. They will ship it to you for free on CD/DVD! (I received 5 disks today and some stickers to “spread the word” with.)
• The OS comes bundled with a pile of software, everything the average computer user needs, from Openoffice to Gimp (an image program akin to Photoshop) to a bunch of other useful goodies.
• It comes on a bootable disk, so you don’t need to install it and kill your hard drive to try it.

So, with much anticipation, I will give Ubuntu a whirl over the next couple of days. I’ll let you know how it goes.

UPDATE: Well, the CD wouldn’t play itself in my Acer laptop. It crapped out into BASH-world, which is unsurprising as Linux is by-and-large built by volunteers. They tend to take a little time to get every single driver for every single hardware configuration up and going, and it is a new laptop.

I was going to try it on our second computer which went down with a virus a few months ago, but turns out sometime between the virus and now, the motherboard’s onboard video pooched. So, I ripped the hard drive and a stick of RAM out and slapped it into Hulk (my other desktop), enjoyed the boosted speed, then commenced a program of scanning for virus repeatedly.

Ubuntu is going to have to wait for now… until the virus(es) has(ave) been DESTROYED!

In the meantime, enjoy the linkage from Susanna in the comments, to 3 Dead Trolls In A Baggie’s smash hit, “Every OS Sucks“.