twas the day before Christmas

Dec 24, 2009 12:05

The Sororal Unit came down from Virginia for an early Christmas celebration, so this last week was a flurry of family get-togethers, dinners out, and recuperating from my thesis defense ( Read more... )

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thecommonswift December 24 2009, 19:20:47 UTC
Ubuntu is a free operating system that's a good, functional alternative to Windows. Thus far I've found it to be very user-friendly, and there's a wide variety of quality free software available for it. You can even run Windows programs in it with an emulation program called Wine.

http://www.ubuntu.com/

I am intrigued by this Dvorak layout. I would probably need to find stickers for my keyboard keys, though. I tend to look at my keys a lot when I type.

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thecommonswift December 24 2009, 19:55:54 UTC
It is indeed Linux-based. I have no programmer-fu, but have some familiarity with Linux systems due to rooming with my computer geek sister during college. Ubuntu is much more user-friendly than anything I've ever encountered, and so far it runs better than my Windows computer. I've never had a Mac, so I can't say how they compare ( ... )

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