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An interesting and fun plunge

I’ve made the switch.

No, not to OS X (I’m not mr. moneybags yet). I’ve made the switch to linux-on-the-desktop.

At work, that is. I’ve installed Ubuntu 6.06 as my main operating system on my workstation here. I’ve been using it for a week or so now and it is the best ‘desktop’ linux experience I’ve had. Not too shabby a’tall. I’m weaning myself to see just how much I can(‘t) do with it.

I’ll still need an XP desktop for necessary administration, so I’ve installed (complied, built) VMWare’s free server for linux and I have just this morning completed installing XP in a virtual session.

So I have both! w00t.

Now all I need is a Mr. Moneybags so I can get that Mac laptop, do a bootcamp installation of Ubuntu to go along with OS X, and install XP on a VM ware session in that. Yep, I want all three in one fast-as-hell laptop. Joy!

Let the evil laughter commence, tout’de suite!

14 Replies to “An interesting and fun plunge”

  1. I’ve been running Ubuntu on my laptop for about six months, and I really like it — it’s been comparatively painless, and my computer seems happy.

  2. It’s very user friendly, and much of the user experience is mirrored from OS X and Windows, so that people feel more comfortable.

    You’ll have to keep us posted as things progress.

  3. You could probably just virtualize OS X and Ubuntu and have all three at once. With a nice virtual windows manager you could really floor your friends. 😀

  6. I’ll have to look at that when I get home – our filter blocks SA :(. I suppose I could turn it off for myself, but that would be work 🙂

    LOOOOONIX.

  7. I am really close to moving to a mac book pro – is seems like there are more and more issues with windows. I just have to make sure FFXI will work under mac with emulation.

  9. boot camp dual boot to XP – fully accelerated driver support now exists for MAC ATI cards.

    Then you just boot for games 🙂

    (that’s my plan, at least)

  11. that is my back up plan – I just need to get a pro for the better video card
    (and the ability to do a cool laser etching on the top)

    Have you played ffxi? I am totally addicted now

  12. Couldn’t you just play that on an XBox 360 and keep your MacBook Pro for stuff like BFME2? 😀

  14. Ha! and RTS with a controller????

    Can we get a ruling on this one?

    EEEEEEHHHHH!!!!

    I’m sorry, that’s incorrect. Next guess?

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