ubuntu 7.10: finally no need for XP

[Ioannis Vranos]

Chris.Masih at crawco.co.uk wrote:
> 
> :oD
> 
> i started dual booting with linux about 18months ago.  I tryed several
> different distros
> including ubuntu (prefered kubuntu at the time) and generally wasnt too
> pleased about stuff like
> the root pw, nonfree codecs hunting, ntfs r/w..and others, you know,
> like most XP users are!
> but i learned quite a bit about the whole process in the meantime.
> 
> all that kind of fizzled out after a while and i went back to a single
> boot XP  for
> one reason or another.
> 
> a couple of weeks ago i decided to try linux again, and to my delight
> the newer releases
> have even more ability out of the box and are very simple to configure,
> i ended up prefering
> ubuntu (like the majority of linuxers it seems). i think the final straw
> was when i managed
> to get the 3D desktop working, i thought "this is awesome!!!" it even
> has more "WOW" than
>  XP.now..not that i really need 3D but it just demonstrated how
> developed linux desktop is
> today.
> 
> a couple of days ago i just replaced the XP on my main drive with ubuntu
> and
> im pretty chuffed that i am finally able to do so, thanks ubuntu (and
> everyone else)
>  just wanted to share this..


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