When you’ve been with Ubuntu a while, the little reminders of Windows can be a source of mild irritation. I mean, what is one to do with the Windows Key in Ubuntu? Well, as it happens, here’s what, thanks to How-to-geek:
Ubuntu has a dropdown menu at the top of the screen to launch applications, which [...]

In the scale of hard times, failing to install an operating system, especially when one has a backup of another computer, is small change. It can wear you out, though, and I’ve spent several long nights failing. I try to think of Beckett’s Westward Ho (’No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.’). [...]

Plus ca change. Still thinking about upgrading Ubuntu and still haven’t got the time. However, looking ahead, I’m trying to figure out partitions again.
Nip over to Psychocats for a few hints.
One of them is to run sudo fdisk -l in the terminal.
you@yourcomputer:~$ sudo fdisk -l
Password:
RESULT:
Disk /dev/hda: 60.0 GB, 60011642880 bytes
255 heads, 63 [...]

After four months on Ubuntu (Edgy Eft) I surprised myself the other
day by realising how few programs I’ve actually changed from Windows Xp.
Of course I used a lot of open source on windows anyway, and there
have been a few programs I haven’t been able to replace on a practical level.
So here’s a list (everybody’s [...]

No, I’m not giving up on Ubuntu, but because of the constant updates, I’m running out of space, so I’ve been thinking of uninstalling Edgy Eft, and making a fresh install of the next update of Ubuntu, Feisty, in a few weeks time.
If you have a dual boot system, like I have (only because I [...]