So last night I installed Ubuntu. Here are a few things that impressed me so much.

1) I could surf the net and listen to music from my windows partition while it was installing (BIG PLUS)
2) Once it had installed, I set up my graphic drivers in under 20min (19minutes download time for the drivers). I used an app called Envy to update my ATI X1600 drivers
3) I could use my “local only” bandwidth to update Ubuntu’s packages and from Ubuntu 7.04 to 7.10
4) When I wanted to watch an XVID file, it asked me if I wanted to search for codecs and within 30s those codecs had been found and installed and the video was playing
5) During installation, Ubuntu detected my Windows partition, my account on windows and copied all of the “My Documents” folder over to my Linux partition
6) It ever retrieve and set my background image from windows into Ubuntu
7) I had Beryl installed in less than 10minutes using the Add/Remove Programs function. When I opened FireFox, all of my Favourites from Flock on my windows partition has been copied over.
9) When I hit the print Screen Key, A dialog appeared and prompted me for the location to save the image to and which file format I wanted.
10) within 15 minutes my ipod had synced with RhythmBox (The Linux verison of iTunes it seems)

So there we go. Seriously consider Ubuntu. I will be installing VMware tonight so that I can install windows into that for development purposes.

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