Yesterday, a friend of mine gave me an old laptop because I’m too cheap to buy a new one. It’s a Dell Inspiron 2500, a celeron computer that was struggling with the Windows XP OS installed on it. The first thing I did was, of course, format the computer and reinstall XP on it. It gave it a little boost but nothing to write a blog about.
Then, while chatting online with another friend, I explained my predicament to him. He suggested I install Ubuntu on the laptop. Now I’ve heard about Ubuntu before and many a friend and co-worker has tried to convert me to linuxism. Although I love the idea of free open-source software, I wasn’t thrilled that many of my programs won’t even work. Still, with the laptop the way it was running with XP, no programs were working on it so I decided to take the plunge.
