I Deleted Vista From My Life
It was a little bit scary, but after a few Vista related problems in the last few days I’d had enough.
A while ago I figured out that most of the things I do online involve Firefox and with a bit of research it was easy to see that most of the other things could easily be adapted to Ubuntu.
Months ago I’d looked at doing a dual boot set up but due to all the crap that came with Vista I didn’t have enough space on my hard drive.
This afternoon I downloaded the latest version of Ubuntu and burnt it to a CD. One of the great things about Ubuntu is that you can run it from the CD. It ran as fast as Vista did so I thought once I had Ubuntu fully installed then it would be flying….. I wasn’t wrong.
So using Vista I spent 4 hours backing up 6GB of data to a portable drive then deleted Vista from my life forever. I couldn’t go back even if I wanted to, My system didn’t come with restore disks, and I didn’t make any either.
Overall the experience has been pretty good. I’m making this post in Ubuntu without having to do anything special.
So far I’ve come across three minor problems.
- My laptop screen brightness has dimmed and I can’t find anywhere to adjust it (there is a fix, need to look for it)
- My wireless networking isn’t working (but I think I know how to fix it)
- Adobe Air is only an alpha release so Tweetdeck might not be real stable (i’ll look for an alternative)
I’m sure I’ll get all these things sorted within the next few hours.
I’ll post some updates on how things are going.
Update: I just realised that Vista won’t be entirely out of my life until I convince my girlfriend she doesnt need to play World of Warcraft anymore 