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I watch Big Bang Theory religously. It’s a great show. Funny as hell. And really hits the nail on the head with true geekery. Seems Sheldon loves the same OS I use on my laptop as well.

I can really see why Sheldon loves it. It’s slick, it’s stable, and lately has been doing what I want on a computer.

The only complaint about Ubuntu (not just 10.04 but previous versions as well) is that I cannot get games like Guild Wars, or Portal or any game that is either Windows based or intense graphics to run smooth on the Linux partition. Boxee also runs real jagged. I don’t know if this is a driver issue with the Intel based card that’s in my Acer 5720Z or what. Oh well, hopefully it will get worked out soon.

Well it’s almost been a couple of weeks since the official release of Ubuntu’s latest LTS version of the OS and I have been running it on the Linux partition of my computer since the first Alpha release.

They really have come a long way. A lot of great new features since Karmic and even more since the initial release of Warty Warthog in 2004 when I first looked at Ubuntu as a Linux distro.

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Ok I quit KDE like a bad habit and went back to GNOME. I like GNOME and most of the tutorials for Ubuntu are based in it so I am going to keep using that.

KDE is visually stunning, but for me there is a few things I cannot use with it. Like UbuntuTweak.

I have been working with the GNOME interface more and I have my desktop the way I like it. I even have my girlfriend using my laptop from time to time and she’s not as scared of Linux as she used to be.

That’s really all I have to report at this time…

Well today is the official release of Ubuntu 9.10 (a.k.a. Karmic Koala) and let me tell you it is one of the best releases so far of Ubuntu I have seen.

I have played around with previous versions going back as far as Warty the Warthog (version 4.10) and none of them really compare to the look and feel to Jaunty Jackalope (version 9.04) and Karmic Koala. Read the rest of this entry »