Year in Review

[the_wanlorn]

 
I don't have the energy for long posts yet.


January: "Took me less than a quarter of the way home to decide I really need to learn to keep my sodding mouth shut."

February: "The Ultimate X-Men may have my firstborn."

March: "Claudia Black is gorgeous with curly hair."

April: "Ya, so it occurred to me that they're probably done uploading the new icon space."

May: "LJ was down for a while."

June: "I just beat Super Mario Bros. 3."

July: "Everyone who knows me knows that I'm completely in love with Batman."

August: "People I Am In Love With : Andy Dick"

September: "Right, so, I've completely reformated my laptop's hard drive and ditched XP in favor of Ubuntu."

October: "Shut up; I've never seen this before."

November: "I have a cold/sinus infection."

December: "No MP3s will be added for "Here We Come A-Wassailing"."

 

Comments

[shadowkitty.livejournal.com]

What's Ubuntu like? I'm not sure I want to move to Vista & it sounds like a good alternative.

[the-wanlorn.livejournal.com]

I really like it! It's fairly stable, and really really good for Linux n00bs. The interface is ridiculously intuitive, and I love it.

I hesitated switching for the longest time because I was worried about losing all of the awesomesauce applications that only run on Windows, but there's a bajillion and one ways to make them work and Ubuntu makes those ways easy.

Plus, the help forum is, uh, helpful. My questions get answered within half an hour, usually. Including the one that was along the lines of "Uhhhh so I just murdered my partition table and now my computer won't boot up and how do I fix it or at least get the data off D: D: D:"

[the-wanlorn.livejournal.com]

Oops, forgot the downside.

Yanno how if you have a laptop and you are clumsy and you drop it a lot, Windows generally just keeps right on plugging away? Even if, whenever you drop it, the hard drive pops out? So you don't have to worry that it won't boot up anymore?

Yeah, not so much with Ubuntu. You'll either very quickly learn the value of backing up your data and how to get stuff off a dead drive, or you'll learn not to be clumsy anymore. Or both!

[princessdot.livejournal.com]

Is there someplace I could look at this without having to change completely over?

[the-wanlorn.livejournal.com]

If you download it and burn it to a CD, you can run it directly off the CD!

[princessdot.livejournal.com]

EEEEEEEEEEEEE!