switch from XP to Ubuntu

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R.I.P. – Windows XP, Part 2

October 19, 2008 ⋅ 2 comments

This article is a follow-up to the original R.I.P. – Windows XP article. I hate Digg – not the site itself so much, but the Digg premise.  This notion of “popularity = noteworthiness” is the reason I have to tolerate endless news stories about Paris Hilton and the reason Janet Jackson canceled her latest tour, [...]

290px-Windows_XP_SP3

R.I.P. – Windows XP

October 17, 2008 ⋅ 26 comments

(There is now a follow-up article to this post: R.I.P. – Windows XP, Part 2) I have now spent two weeks using Ubuntu 8.04 exclusively on my home PC.  I have booted to XP only once, and that was to check a Photoshop 6 quirk I was getting in WINE.  (As it turned out, it [...]