Two days in home

I feels right, totally right. My shift to ubuntu from kubuntu has proven a case. It might be interesting, if I could clearly spot out those things which took me away from kubuntu. I hardly can do it, since it's also state of mind, but following things were really anoying in kubuntu (kde 4.1):

• Stability. Dolphin among other programs kept crashing.
• Visual problems. Firefox and thunderbird suffered from scrollbar bug. Firefox was totally broken to render pages with select buttons and dropdowns. Very strange.
  
• Desktop switching. I got addicted to ubuntu's excellent feature where mouse wheel on desktop switches current desktop. I could not find such a feature in kde?
• Desktop 'glass'. I like my desktop more to be accesable for some icons and temporary data. I did not like kde's current approach where desktop has only widgets.
  
• Mapping shares and accessing those was somehow problematic.

So now with ubuntu and it does not stand in my way.

Laptop to ubuntu

Yes, I did it. Bought couple of spare HD's for laptop, changed kubuntu HD to empty one and installed ubuntu 8.10 on it. In hour I have migrated two of my primary computers to ubuntu 8.10 with out problems.

I have both old HD's in spare, in case I have forgot to backup something I need.

Way to go with Linux, try same with windows and find yourself in registering nightmare :)

1 h and up

I started this morning my fresh install to ubuntu 8.10 and it took about an hour to complete. My strategy for fresh installs are always to replace my HD with new one, leaving old one as a reversing backup. It's easy and cheap way to keep everything in place, in case of forgetting something in old install (who says I've done that..).

Now I have totally nicely working firefox (with KDE it has terrible problems) along everything else in in place, including vmware 2.0 server for development use. And one more thing with gnome is the support for encrypted usb memories, it's much more integrated than in KDE 4.

ubuntu:1 kubuntu:0

After playing around latest kubuntu 8.10, I found it totally difficult to adjust my mental phase into it. Even I've been heavy KDE user in times of 3.x versions, I found now 4.x very problematic. Somehow I could not handle dolphin as my file manager and desktop is not feeling like home any more.

I think that this might relate to the fact how KDE 4.x feels to the user, it feels like complicated to me as it currently is. I tried for month or so to adjust myself into KDE 4.x mode, but it was difficult. I felt my productivity decrease and after that I was forced to get back ubuntu 8.10.

Now my primary desktop has ubuntu 8.10 and in laptop I still have kubuntu 8.10. But it feels so much more better with ubuntu, I think I will switch back to ubuntu also on laptop soon.

Let you know how it gets :)

Business as usual

I just updated my infrastructure to kubuntu 8.10. Both desktop and laptop. Desktop is HP5800 and laptop is Panasonic Toughbook CF-W7. I really enjoyed how easy it was.

Panasonic CF-W7 has integrated 3G modem, which works nicely with kppp. It has saved my day several times, while on run and urgent need to email or web. I hardly would belive that I never acquire laptop without integrated 3G.

Linux is here

Yes, it has been adventurous autumn and sure economy is jumping. But one thing is stabilizing in now and it's Linux. Have you seen Linux in place, where you have seen symbian before. I've heard a story.

Summer is gone

It's been incredibly nice summer, lot's of things were happening and my computing has stabilized to all linux platforms in work and in home. I have also noticed that whole family of us is totally in Linux, our last windows laptop got broken months ago and every one is on Linux now.

Asus Eee PC has a place with my kids, while I am personally relying to Panasonic CF-W7 and HP 6710b with ubuntu and kubuntu. Wife is also happy with she's linux laptop.

Balmer; find your linux distro soon, clouds are disapearing :)