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I purchased a new computer late this past May. It has an Intel Core Duo and is quite a bit more beefy than the computer I built 5 years ago. The going Intel makes me feel like a traitor to AMD. It also cost a great deal less than the parts combined to build that computer 5 years ago. It came preloaded with XP Professional. I had previously purchased a laptop but returned it as soon as it became evident that it was not going to make anything more convenient for me and it came preloaded with Vista Home Basic. What horrid experience that OS was.

As would come to no surprise to anyone who knows me I turned to my old faithful… Fedora Core, this time Core 7. I tried both the 64 bit build and the regular build. I had nothing but problems with my wifi. One day it would work, the next it didn’t. In the end I contacted a former college and Linux sys-admin about configuring madwifi. He told me the best advice he could give me was to try Ubuntu instead. But being the KDE whore than I am, I went for Kubuntu instead. I fought for 3 days to get  the wifi working with our router and to stop attempting to connect me to our neighbor’s wifi.

I’m still fighting to get samba to play nice with our household network. I don’t think Kubuntu was quite ready with their KDE modules. My smb.conf is forever being overwritten. By what? I’m too busy to find out. Currently I’m installing gnome just to be able to log in with to Gnome and be able to use their tools to configure samba. Yes I could attempt to find and solve the problem, but the time it’s taking me to write this is really more time than I can spare in a day until Baby Boy is asleep.

If that doesn’t work, I’ll download and install Ubuntu and then install KDE. But not w/out a full back up. I thought I’d be safe with the files from my 5 yr. old machine but the external hard drive enclosure we  have fried my 80 gig drive. 60 of those gigs were music.

In all it’s been kind of fun. And I really think with the advances being made by the Ubuntu community that now would be the perfect time for Corel to start doing the Draw Suite for Linux again. If Adobe’s Shockwave developers for the hopeful linux version would actually show us some progress, *Ubuntu Linux would absolutely perfect for every computer in this house. Even Joseph concedes to the bit about Shockwave.

So there you have it, the one confession of switchery that I didn’t make is that I am no longer an ATI whore either.

I’ve changed my brand loyalty three times over and I’ve purchased instead of built my own. Somehow, I feel a bit dirty and underhanded.