Ubuntu
I’m typing this post from the Gnome blog post client installed on my laptop which is now running Ubuntu Linux. I took the plunge a few days ago after getting the itch to try an alternative OS. I knew that if I did a dual-boot, I’d bail out and revert to Windows in a few days. So, I blew away the entire disk and let Ubuntu 6.10 have its way.
So far I’m pretty pleased. The out-of-the box suite of applications is more than adequite for the average user, and it’s Linux, so the power user will never be left wanting. The only stumbling I’ve done is on multimedia codecs. So far I have yet to get anything resembling Internet-type audio/video to play, but I’m not sure I’ve done everything right. Flash 9 beta is installed so all my favorite rich-clienty sites work well (Google Finance, YouTube, etc). No MP3 or AVI joy yet though.
I’ll wrap this up and hope it posts, with the thought that I’ll do a more in-depth review soon.
on January 10th, 2007 at 2:42 pm
Chris,
What resolution are you running on? I tried (unsuccessfully) to set mine to 1680×1050.
on January 22nd, 2007 at 9:47 pm
My laptop’s native resolution is 1440×1050 and that works well. I had to do some tinkering but I never actually affected any changes and it started working. I think one of the post-install updates helped the situation.
Since installing, I’ve added the Beryl which is an OpenGL-accelerated window manager. The visuals are excellent and there’s no drain on the CPU (it’s all GPU enabled). I love it! And it has Expose!