August Abolins -> Michael J. Ryan wrote:

 AA> "Michael J. Ryan -> All"  wrote in message

 AA> ||| I'm not concerned.  I'm going to have a lot of fun using Ubuntu.
 AA> ||
 AA> || Honestly, I've been using Ubuntu as my main desktop, and laptop OS
 AA> || for most of
 AA> || the past two years.. it's pretty decent, but there are some hoops to
 AA> || jump through that go beyond anything I had to deal with in XP, or
 AA> || even Vista for
 AA> || that matter... (my wife runs Vista, the kid runs XP).


 AA> Well after 2 recent years of too frequent reboots. scandisks, defrags,
 AA> etc..
 AA> I'd rather jump through new hoops and spend the time adapting Ubuntu to my
 AA> needs than coping with WinME's shortcomings.   I'm behind schedule to
 AA> finish
 AA> my Ubuntu install this weekend, the time is near.

Note that the 8.04 release of Ubuntu is expected any day now... some
interesting looking improvements have been reported, see for example:

http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=1570

It might be worth waiting to install that version.



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