Ubuntu
May 13th, 2007 at 17:39
I was a bit worried that I was going a bit too “mainstream” last night, so I did something dangerous and irrational to try and up my geek-cred. I installed Linux.
I found an excellent installer, called Wubi, which will install Ubuntu (a Linux distro… if this is too techie for you, you should probably scroll down) automatically, without having to partition your hard disk or do any nasty reformatting. It apparently mounts a folder in windows to act as the partition or something – I don’t really understand it myself.
Aside from the faff of getting the wireless drivers working, its been all right so far – apart from the gross incompatibility of everything from Flash to Real Player to iTunes, the lack of keyboard shortcuts for half a million things that you’d expect to have short cuts for. The backspace key doesn’t even work as a back button in Firefox.
The music playing software that comes installed doesn’t actually support mp3s.
I’m going to soldier on with it though, if only so I can claim the moral left-wing highground. “My operating system isn’t owned by an evil corporation – only my hardware, car, clothes, food, consumer goods and Coke are, and this makes me better than you.”
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