There must be something in the air ... for the 100000000th time I've decided to ditch Windoze and move over to Linux. I've waited a couple of weeks for SuSE to release v10.1 of their usually excellent product, but sadly despite four seperate attempts on two different machines it wouldn't install, just bitched about files missing from the distribution.
Anyways .. a very good mate of mine has been raving on about Ubuntu for months so, as Dapper Drake (v6.06) was officially released yesterday I thought I'd give it a go, and my immediate reaction was WOW.
This is the first Linux distribution which installed cleanly, first-time and with NO PROBLEMS WHATSOEVER!!! Even my whizzy new MIMO wireless card installed invisibly and it only took five minutes of searching to work out how to get both monitors on my dual-head setup to play nicely. I am truly stunned.
So, it's goodbye SuSE and hello Ubuntu - next step is to get compiz working and impress the wife with some high quality alpha-blended desktop shenanigans ... (like THAT will ever happen !!!).
Btw, in case anyone noticed, I haven't posted for ages, this is due to a newjob that's had me in four European countries in less than three weeks - and I'm bound for Germany again next week ... all good fun though :)
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