Monday, January 28, 2008

No More Windows

I've taken the plunge and installed Linux Ubuntu. I didn't even partition my drive so I could fall back on Windows if I run into a software I can't install - I erased my whole hard drive and started over installing just Ubuntu.

So far so good. Mostly, it's as easy to set up, configure, install things as Windows. It recognized my printer and internet automatically (easier than WinXP). My main concern was that I wasn't sure I'd be able to listen to my beloved WDAV classical streaming MP3 station, but I installed the "codec" that allows the computer to read MP3 files (a copyrighted format) and it works - I'm listening now!

And blogging is apparently no problem.