September 18, 2006
Got That Out Of My System
I spent a few hours fiddling with Ubuntu tonight. I managed to successfully set up partitions and configure a dual boot system, which gave me a minor sense of victory. It took forever to get the OS to recognize my adaptive hardware (mostly because I failed to distinguish between the letter "O" and the number "0" when editing a config file, which apparently was sufficient to completely crash Linux). I finally figured out what I did wrong and managed to get Ubuntu to recognize my hardware. Then I try to load up the built-in on-screen keyboard. It spits back at me a head-scratching error message.
Linux may be what all the l33t h4x0rz are running, but its accessibility out of the box leaves a lot to be desired. I may try tinkering with it again in another couple years, but for now I am beholden to Windows. It's like the temperamental mistress that does things no other OS will do for me.
Posted by wintermute2_0 at September 18, 2006 09:34 PM