ChapterZero

Ubuntu 9.10, or Windows 7?

I like the idea of Ubuntu, and I can do almost everything I want with it, with the important exception of easily accessing the campus wireless network. I also don’t know if it interfaces with projectors as easily as Windows does. Those are my two main issues. Other than that, there’s the eye candy factor: Windows probably will have a slicker interface. The change from Hardy to Jaunty was striking to me, visually, but what I’ve read of Karmic Koala doesn’t indicate that I can expect a similar jump.

I could always do a dual boot again, but setting that up is a pain in the rear, not to mention the wasted disk space from duplicate copies of my larger applications: Mathematica, Matlab, etc.

Possibly relevant posts:

• Paper management (12/18/2009)
• Delivery Day (9/5/2007)
• What is Dell doing? (7/15/2007)