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[dakegra]

hmm. Ubuntu installed

no internet
screen resolution dodgy - it's a widescreen laptop and the text is very blurry - changed to 1024x768 and it's better but text is huuuuge

no internet.

This was always my problem with linux in the past, getting the damn thing online.

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[stimpy-lfs.livejournal.com]

I tried Linux once - it was truly dreadful. I was open minded about it - I wanted to like it, but it was complete shite - just getting it to play a DVD required me to write command line stuff. No doubt some geeks might have gubbed their own pants at such ridiculousness - I just ended up hating it afyer about 3 or 4 hours. I ordered an OEM copy of Vista Ultimate with SP1 - far, far less faffy to use :)

[dakegra.livejournal.com]

I've tried various flavours over the years and really really wanted to like it.

No internet was the killer for me, and I consider myself reasonably techie.

The only way I've got this far is to have two laptops, side-by-side, one running XP (relatively easy, it all just works) looking up reasons why the ubuntu box wasn't.