Lynnoox ?

My IE is slowly going insane, Firefox takes so long to open that I use IE and Flock more often, and my passwords are too many to export to Opera without spending an hour.

Plus all the stupid crap I’ve installed means that this XP installation is about to crack under the weight.

I’d tried before, and after my second terminals, I’ll try again to install linux.

Which one though?

Ubuntu and it’s derivatives (Xubuntu, kubuntu, edubuntu) sound nice. I’d have preferred Freespire (I gather it’s better out of the box – multimedia supprot etc) but Ubuntu has a tonne of community support and I hear even Freespire is moving to an Ubuntu forking, and Linspore’s awesome CNR kit is going to be available soon on Ubuntu.

Maybe one of the BSDs (FreeBSD/OpenBSD /PC-BSD) ? Naw… too hard at this point.

So probably kubuntu or xubuntu.

Though the learning curve is very flattened, and progress will be slow for me (new words, new look, new command line, new everything).

But on the upside, it comes with OpenOffice and Multimedia support now.

I guess I’ll have to be a dumb user for six months or so before I can get used to it and start the tweaking that’ll make it do what I want how I want.

But after my itsy bitsy project is done. So we’re looking at 3rd week of April, if not before.

Anyone else wanting to install Linux in April ?

I’ve done it twice before, and it’s not been a pleasant experience. RHL Fedora Core 4 and Ubuntu 6.10.

Maybe it’s time I tried Ubuntu’s new beta? Or should I actually wait for it to go gold or live or whatever the new euphmism is?

Edit: Maybe I’ll wait till May Day or the last week of April. They’d have released Ubuntu 7 Feisty Fawn by April 19th and we’ll have a clear picture of bugs and such.