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
