Giving Ubuntu Another Shot

I’m giving Ubuntu another shot. I’m not using my laptop much anymore, mostly because it sucks, so I decided to try Ubuntu again. The install was quick and painless. I think Ubuntu 7 was faster than 6 with the install process. You can tell it was updated to make install a lot easier too, and it was. The one thing that prevented me from keeping Ubuntu on my laptop last time I installed was spending four hours trying to get wireless to work. Today, out of curiosity, I decided to do a google search to see if there were any simpler methods to get my wireless to work. The result was this thread here. It worked like a charm. I do like Ubuntu. I will probably keep it. I can do anything that I would have done on this laptop using Windows with no problem. (Though, this is only a day into it, so we’ll see if I run into any major problems). The biggest issue I’ve seen is running into non-open source drivers or software that have packages for 32 bit Linux, but not 64 (such as Adobe Flash). With some searching, I found work-a-rounds for that too. We’ll see where this leads. Who knows, I may turn my old PC into a Linux box (but will still keep my Vista PC because yes, I do in fact like Vista.)