My Time with Ubuntu (2 Months)

Well I promised that I would follow-up when I had been using Ubuntu for a little longer and how I was liking it. It turns out I’ve learned a lot and I’ve changed quite a few habits of mine. Over the past 20 days or so, being a college student, I’ve had a lot of papers due and LibreOffice was simply not cutting it for me since it wasn’t handling styles or headers correctly or as expected and going with the lazy college student style I didn’t allot enough time to deal with the quirks. That being said I had been dual booting mainly to play Team Fortress and other games so I finally got my hands on a license key after running a “trial” version of Windows and started using that and my familiar Microsoft Office. This has actually led to me primarily using Windows out of laziness and in hopes that I will get my papers done by not having to switch OS’s. Regardless of my Windows use I do still love Ubuntu and I’d like to expand a little on what I’ve like and what troubles I’ve had.

Things I’ve liked:

• It’s pretty, being a former design student I’ve come to appreciate pretty and Ubuntu certainly is
• Holy shit is it fast. Working in Ubuntu with everything being so responsive and switching back to Windows is somewhat painful. Switching back to my dual core MacBook running Lion earlier this week was even more painful
• Wicked easy but it certainly isn’t hard to get your hands dirty. People that know me know that I like to take things apart and tinker, that’s certainly not hard in Ubuntu and the community support is great, there’s a good chance there’s someone else who is willing to help you take your first baby steps into tinkering.
• The ability to work with a live OS is fantastic