Progressive Overload

I have been a Windows user since my first computer...that all changed with Ubuntu 's Dapper Drake release. My first experience with Ubuntu, was installing it on a spare laptop hard drive (I had doubts) in my HP nc6230 laptop. Needless to say, I was sold on that OS. It installed perfectly and very rapidly. And that spare hard drive became THE hard drive :).

I remember being worried that I wouldn't be able to control my iPod very well, or [insert stuff you do on your PC here] but lo and behold, Amarok has sweet iPod support and I have been able to find what I needed whenever I looked (and most often available through and apt-get from the repositories). Basically, I wasn't really limited at all, except for the Flash support which has been addressed recently .

I was so in love with Ubuntu, that I went on a 'rampage' installing that OS on a few older machines that just ran like crap under Windows XP.

For example, I have a Sony Vaio 500mhz processor laptop with 256 megs or RAM that was unbearable. The display was even somehow ruined with pink lines running through all of the white space on screen. I installed Ubuntu on that thing, it picked up the plug-in wireless card, ran like a top, and even fixed my display somehow (no idea on that one, but it is the truth). The performance difference was dramatic and my father-in-law (who I lent the laptop to) said he liked using it better than his 2.8ghz celeron powered desktop.

I followed that up by installing Ubuntu on a couple other AMD boxes (not sure of the exact processors but they were around the 1ghz range). To make a long story short, it was like getting new machines.

I'm running the new Ubuntu release (Edgy Eft 6.10) on my laptop now (the HP nc6230) and it does not disappoint.

(Sorry for the lack of benchmark stats, never got around to doing any. )