theoretically, linux works great and ubuntu is wonderful. After needing a new hard-drive and being super annoyed with XP, I gave it a try. It installed beautifully, everything worked right “out of the box.” However, after 6 weeks, I am a bit disenchanted:
a. there are all these applications that supposedly work with my ipod (classic), but they don’t (and if you go into the fora, they all give lame excuses). Think Floola, GTPod, Banshee, etc.
b. wine and codeweaver’s crossover supposedly allow you to run windows software natively in linux, it is just that microsoft office 2007 and itunes are not supported (and nobody writes about this).
c. I have now downloaded 7 different applications to watch movies and I have been able to mix-and-match and actually found applications that were able to play movies without turning my kids into blue zombies or decoupling the sound from the video, however, when I connected the computer to the projector nothing happened.
d. flash sometimes works and sometimes does not.
e. facebook works sometimes.
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