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Taking the Plunge: Part 2

Started by manalang · 9 months ago

Over the weekend, I finally made the decision to reimage my laptop, which currently runs XP, to Ubuntu 8.04, fondly known as Hardy Heron.
Well, I dragged my feet, and the weekend ended; XP must not have got the memo because it’s being more temperamental than normal. It& ... Continue reading »

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  • manalang

    1 year ago

    Ubuntu is your friend.
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  • brhubart

    1 year ago

    I recently converted an old laptop to Ubuntu. I'm not a command-line kind of guy, which has complicated earlier excursions into Linux. But I've found Ubuntu to be very easy to use. I haven't had any of the problems I used to have with XP on that same machine. And let's face it, there's a lot of appeal to what amounts to flipping the bird at Windows.
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  • Jake

    1 year ago

    Choice is really nice. Couple that with VMs being so easy and cheap h/w, and you have a great situation as a user. You don't have to pick just one O/S anymore.

    Still for most users, reimaging is an alien concept. How many OS X users ever open a terminal? I just realized today that root is disabled by default on OS X.

    We're a geeky bunch, and no, I won't fix your computer. OK, maybe if you ask nicely and give me beer.
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