On the Other Side

Well, I've been away again for a while.  This time it was the "supercold" that's been making the rounds locally.  Nasty stuff, and all the cool kids seem to be getting it.  I'm just glad I'm on the closing end, and not the starting end.

But, while I've been wiling away the hours coughing my lungs up, I've been doing some research.  Been looking into the wild-n-wooly world of Linux.

Now, my previous experience with Linux had been wrecking the hard drive on an old IBM ThinkPad while trying to install an old iteration.  (I actually stumbled across those old CDs recently.  And rapidly hid them away again...)  But, the world has changed.  And there's now this wonderful version of Linux known as "Ubuntu"...

So, yeah, I just installed "Ubuntu" on my Toshiba Satellite.  I decided to start light, so I used the "Wubi" installer, which installs it alongside Win7.  The system then can dual-boot into either Win7 or Ubuntu.

Things worked fine.  The setup couldn't have been easier, with just a few mouse clicks to set up the system. Then you sit back and wait about 10 or 20 minutes for the system to set itself up.

And...

Well, I rebooted, and found myself in the "Unity" desktop of Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal".  The system recognized my proper screen resolution, picked up on my wireless and my battery setup.  Not bad.  I logged right onto 'Net, and here I am typing away.

Granted, this has been a grand total of about 10 minutes usage.  I need to do some testing, jumping between OS's.  I need to play with the software.  (I've fiddled with LibreOffice under OS X...)  I was to see how the files are handled, how to set up work spaces...

But I'm impressed.  I hope that feeling continues.  We'll see how things go...