Windows, it bores me.

I used to be quite the hardcore geek, forever digging around inside systems. Overcocking. Watercooling. RAID this or that. Been there, done that and worn the t-shirt until it fell apart. But lately I’ve gotten out of the hardware geek mode. I use the computer to do email and surf the web. Sometimes I use an app to design rockets and manage my iPod, but I lost the passion for computers. So what should I do? Buy an appliance system like a Mac?

Not likely!

Last night I took an Ubuntu 11.04 disk to my computer with the intention of replacing Windows as my daily OS to bring some interest back into my computing life. So far its… interesting. The only anchors to Windows are my iPod and Rocksim an I hope to cover them with virtualisation. Just about everything else I use is open source.

So here I am, 24 hours later trying to get my ancient video card to work properly. This may be a bigger challenge than i realised…