Well I lost my drive on my laptop at home. While I waited on the restore disks from Dell I decided to see how Ubuntu would load to my Dell E1505 Laptop.I've played with Ubuntu server on several occasions but it was only in a VM test environment and I didn't do much "work" on those loads. I thought that loading it at home would force me to figure things out.
I've had it loaded for several weeks now. And there are things that we like a ton and things that we really miss.
Things that we miss...
- iTunes - I can connect to my iPod G5 with the native music player that shipped with my linux flavor but it doesn't connect up to iTunes.
- Everything that I did with Windows is available with Linux but it takes me a while to find it. We are not the most patient people with searching for the stuff we are looking for.
- Office is nice but still just a little different.
- specific drivers aren't officially offered for linux on my dell.
- Sonicwall Global VPN client not actually offered for Linux. (it is nice b/c I can't work from home, but then again I can't fix stuff from home now).
- Simplicity
- Quick boot
- Quick shutdown
3 comments:
Michael,
Don't turn to the darkside! :)
You can install VMware** with an XP image on it and still have your XP apps (iTunes, VPN Client, print drivers) when necessary (in a window!) and still enjoy the best OS around!!
Jeffrey Thompson
jthompsonic@gmail.com
http://itdiscuss.org/linux
I forgot to leave my VMware link:
http://itdiscuss.org/vmware
Great idea! I'm going to start working on that. I have played with VMware a little in the windows environment and it would be beneficial to know how to run it off a linux machine. Thanks for your comment.
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