Yesterday I installed the Ubuntu Linux distribution on my Kohjinsha. Spent an hour trying to get it to boot correctly from an USB stick, then gave up and bought an external DVD, which worked right away. So now it’s running Ubuntu, boots up at 10 seconds or so (to login screen), and is way faster than Vista Home which was on it from the start. More

Every now and then I get this craving to wipe Windows out and go 100% opensource. That is, install a Linux desktop distribution. I (almost) always stop myself before committing to it since I really need a few programs that haven’t got good enough counterparts. The main problems being Adobes’ Creative Suite, including Photoshop, Indesign and Illustrator. Sure, The Gimp is nice and all but there just aren’t any opensource application that comes near to these pieces of software. More