Switching to Linux 2 (0)
My laptop is 100% “Linux-sized” now. Ubuntu 7.10 Gusty Gibbon it is. I’ve been using it for a couple of days now and I have to say that I really enjoy the compiz effects. My Intel graphics card was on the compiz black list, but the fix for that was easy.
I’m currently sitting on my tower computer, which happens to be my main computing location. I have 2 USB hard drives attached to it, trying to extract all the valuable data off the NTFS volumes. There are thousands of duplicate files from years of reinstalling, a few months of running a Mac Mini, and them getting back to Windows. The situation is a mess.
I have one problem left which is making me think that I will need a Windows installation on the tower computer. The issue has to do with my iPod Video (5th gen 80 gig). I know that there are linux programs like GTKPod and Amarok which can utilize the iPod, and I may have gone with them in the past, but I know that they are not exactly perfect. I happen to enjoy my iTunes experience a lot and I don’t want to go back to hunting down podcasts and uploading them individually.
So here’s the plan: Dell Laptop = Linux; Tower = Linux and Windows XP. I promise that I will only use the Windows partition for syncing my iPod.
