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Switching to Linux 2 (0)

December 7th, 2007 by Emil in Linux, Microsoft

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. continue reading »