I’ve now spent a week using Ubuntu and I’m kicking myself for not having tried it earlier. I’m even still using Gnome despite being a big fan of KDE and it’s applications base.
When I say I’ve been ‘waking up’ to Ubuntu, I mean that quite literally in that I leave my laptop running by the bed overnight and then immediately grab it after my alarm goes off in order to check my usual news sites and avoid falling back to sleep. The real trick is to remember to set the screen brightness to low before I go to bed so that I don’t do the crazy-eyed man impression in the glare of the CCFLs.
I’m rather enamored of the package manager. All I have to do is go to the Applications icon of the menu > Add/Remove and I’m presented with a fast and easy interface for browsing the online software repositories (which are themselves extensive).
My only gripe is that while the default browser is Firefox, the default e:mail client is Evolution. While Evolution is definitely very capable, it’s also tied to Novell who just aren’t top of the pops with me right now so I will likely switch to Thunderbird if I decide to collect email locally on the laptop.
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