Some may recall that a while back I wrestled fruitlessly with an ancient laptop, tried to install Ubuntu (a linux distro) and it never quite worked. Combination of it being a laptop and it being ancient I think. Well, the other day I decided to reformat the main PC and set-up a dual boot system, the options being Ubuntu and XP.
Things what I have learned: When you know perfectly well that linux uses ext3 don't be surprised to find that when you formatted the wrong partition to FAT32 linux is installed in the partition you didn't want it to be in and you've got to start over again. Also don't be surprised when people look at you blankly.
Someone I read a post by said that Ubuntu isn't for noobs, but it is for determined noobs. I guess you can count me in that category, I'd never used a command line prompt and yet right now I'm writing this post from Ubuntu, after having eventually got my widescreen resolution working, got my wireless card working, after mounting my windows partition and then double-checking that the little XP program I got can actually write and read to ext3. I've also enabled dvd and mp3 playback and right now I'm pretty smug.
But then again if I can do it you can do it quicker. I really am impressed with this OS, apart from the odd game I have no real need to use XP. When the next Ubuntu version comes out with stable NTFS read/write support I'll be even happier.
