Well, the change-over is complete. It didn’t go easily, probably due to the fact that I had multiple partitions and boot loaders on my hardrive, but Ubuntu auto install failed several times and in the end I had to manually set the partition table. No problem if you’ve spent the last 4 years at KTH, but if you were a beginner you would be back to Windows before you had even tried Ubuntu.
Anyway, now I’m up and running it seems to be worth it!
Ubuntu automatically set up my screen resolutions and sound cards without me needing to play around with any drivers (which would have taken ages in Windows assuming you could find the drivers). The Internet connection worked straight away and what impressed me was that my wireless Internet also worked straight away (this previously had only worked in Windows 2000 with the help of a seperate program which cost money).
Both my HP digital camera and my Creative MP3 player also worked which they did not do in Windows 2000 (though the creative mp3 needed a free downloaded bit of software).
So far, so good an no crashes…
I have thought about moving over to Linux previously but i think i’ll leave well alone for the time being as it does sound as though it could get messy!!!
It’s been working fine with no crashes for about a week (lucky if Windows would go a few hours without crashing, probably because of a virus I couldn’t get rid of).
Only problem is when someone sends you a .doc with funny formating. Open Office is pretty basic and if you need to make something cool or work with older documents you made in Word etc. you might struggle.