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Now with Ubuntu

I decided it was time to freshen up my PC desktop. Miles, one of the geeks sent me a new/old video card so I could play some of the more recent games. I’d been meaning to do a fresh install of Windows for sometime and I just sold the my mini-itx linux server so I thought perfect time to setup a nice dual-booting system.

Several GRUB issues, disk read errors and formatting my Windows install later (note: even when you have a backup, do a triple check of it, I wish I had) I was a little sweaty and a lot peeved. The root of all my problems was a faulty IDE cable. Curses! So, here I am listening to tunes in Ubuntu asking myself when I plan on finishing that Windows install I need to redo. I’ve lost all my game installs and game data, emulators and roms and a load of abandonware due to my own frustration and a bloody IDE cable! Console/Portable gaming wins here.

Ah well, Ubuntu is quite nice. Dapper Drake is miles ahead of Breezy Badger already. I feel a bit weird not using Gentoo, but maybe when we move we’ll need another server and I’ll be sticking with Gentoo on that front. Joe has been saying nice things about KUbuntu, which I might try out. While I’m thinking about it though, I found a nice KDE/Gnome comparison on the Ubuntu Forums.