ActsAsFlinn

I’ve just joined the masses of other happy Ubuntu users. Yesterday I started work at my new job and my workstation was all set up for me with Vista (argh). I tried to use Vista thinking it might get better over time. I’ve been away from the Windows world for a while now and Vista seemed interesting…but it was really bad. I tried copying a folder overwriting an existing folder and I was prompted 4 times to make sure I really really really wanted to do it.

So by 1pm I was running Ubuntu 7.04. I’ve also been away from Linux for a while and I have to say I’m impressed with Ubuntu as a desktop system. At this point I see no legitimate reason not to use Linux in a corporate setting. apt is a really great package management system and it’s made the transition really pleasant. Ubuntu as a distro also provides a number of really nice easy features like automatic enabling of the nvidia driver and automatic network configuration.

I’ve actually used Suse 10.2 recently and had issues with their RPM base package system and lack of some drivers. I’ve heard a lot of good things about Ubuntu and I’ve been a skeptic of desktop Linux for the last few years but I’m really happy.