Switched to Ubuntu..
Yes. It is official that I have switched to Ubuntu as a de-facto OS on my home computer. I have to thank my wife for it since she was the force behind it. She managed to infect the machine with some malware which refused to let go of my machine. I got so frustrated trying to clean it up, I decided to ditch Windows and move to Linux. This happened about couple of months ago before Dell decided to adopt Ubuntu for its Linux line of desktops. During that time, I had heard quite a bit about Ubuntu but being a big fan of Fedora, I was a little hesitant to try it out. But curiosity got the better of me and I decided to go for Ubuntu. My first impression was astounding. I popped in the CD and it loaded some binaries into memory and boom, I was presented with a desktop to play around and get accustomed to the OS. It even recognized my wireless D-link PCMCIA card and installed the driver for it and I was able to get on the Internter within 2 minutes of popping in the Ubuntu CD. The Windows OS is still there on my machine and I can revert to it if I wanted to. But I decided to go for a clean install of Ubuntu and completely wiped out Windows from it.
Without boring you with further details of my encounter with Ubuntu, I wanted to say that my wife was not very thrilled with the interface at the beginning. But then she brought this on to herself. Atleast, that is what I have been telling her so far. But she got used to it and she is able to do most of the stuff as before. One thing she could not do is to infect this with malware as before and I do not think she is too concerned about it now.
It has been 2 months now and it has been working great so far. A few kinks here and there and few websites not working properly since they are written in ASP(Morons!!!) but other than that, it has been a wonderful experience with Ubuntu. The ease with which it installs and the options available to play around is worth pointing out. A few neat applications I have come across for Ubuntu will be discussed in detail in a later blog.
Without boring you with further details of my encounter with Ubuntu, I wanted to say that my wife was not very thrilled with the interface at the beginning. But then she brought this on to herself. Atleast, that is what I have been telling her so far. But she got used to it and she is able to do most of the stuff as before. One thing she could not do is to infect this with malware as before and I do not think she is too concerned about it now.
It has been 2 months now and it has been working great so far. A few kinks here and there and few websites not working properly since they are written in ASP(Morons!!!) but other than that, it has been a wonderful experience with Ubuntu. The ease with which it installs and the options available to play around is worth pointing out. A few neat applications I have come across for Ubuntu will be discussed in detail in a later blog.
posted by Siva Balan @ Thursday, June 07, 2007
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