I’m calling it a victory
The new desktop PC arrived in the arms of the cheerful FedEx guy on Thursday afternoon. I’ve been playing with it a little bit, trying to get it to my liking…most specifically, getting a comfortable dual-boot environment going between Windows 7 (for games) and Ubuntu Linux (for just about everything else).
After several hours worth of tinkering (the kind of Windows-specific headaches which, to be honest, I’ve actually kind of missed since we went Linux primary), involving several aborted installs, a complete wipe and rebuild of the hard disk partition tables, and a bit of temporary monitor swapping (ATI Radeon drivers can be a bitch sometimes), I have a complete, non-Dell branded clean Win 7 install living happily next to a (so far) fully functional install of Ubuntu 10.4 (the latest LTS version – I may hop up to 10.10 in a few weeks, once the kinks are worked out).
Anyway, I am content – for the moment, things are right with my world*. Now, I believe it’s safe to go to bed.
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* – especially right today, since I had a very good report from the doctor today – I honestly had no idea I’d dropped almost 25 pounds in the last six months!
