Philbywhizz » gentoo http://www.philbywhizz.com Random thoughts from Phil Mon, 17 Oct 2011 13:42:48 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Crossing over to the dark side http://www.philbywhizz.com/2008/05/22/crossing-over-to-the-dark-side-2/ http://www.philbywhizz.com/2008/05/22/crossing-over-to-the-dark-side-2/#comments Wed, 21 May 2008 14:13:39 +0000 Philbywhizz http://www.philbywhizz.com/?p=44 Well last week I finally did it – migrated off my windows machine at home and now running 100% linux. I was becoming frustrated with WindowsXP, it just wasn’t working for me anymore. Most of my apps I run I can run on Linux so I took the plunge.

The latest version Ubuntu Linux was released last month (8.04), and thought that I’d give it a go and see what happens.

I am quite impressed as to how far ubuntu has become. I have a dual head 19″ LCD monitor setup, and it just worked out of the box. Blender absolutely flies on ubuntu compared to windows!

I used to play around with gentoo, but again I felt as though I was fighting the computer just to do something (hmm.. maybe I should get a mac). I just want something that just ‘works’. Ubuntu detected all my hardware except my webcam (which I can live without for now).

I still have a small windows partition on my PC for when I am desperate and have the urge to play a game or two. I’ll most likely need it when spore comes out in a few months time.

I really think Microsoft has a bit of competition on its hands if Ubuntu keeps going in the direction it is heading.

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