The Sebastian

I've finally installed Kubuntu in my Dell Notebook (a Inspiron E1705). It's just lovely. Kubuntu really "gets it"! It looks and performs great and its really easy to use.

The installer from the live CD worked great. It even set up my wireless network card (Intel one) without any issues. OK, yes, I had to manually add a few things here an there (such as 915resolution, a mapping for the media buttons, the SMP kernel, etc), but that did not take too long: altough I'm more of an 'rpm' guy, setting up the extra goodies was very, very easy and straight-forward just using EasyUbuntu and Adept or apt-get.

Firefox, skype and Kopete all work great. I'm now starting to use Kontact and it looks really good so far. OpenOffice also seems to be running faster than it used to on my almost clean XP install on this very same machine. My USB mass-storage JVC HD video cam worked perfectly and automatically (altough it seems for some reason I did not get the full USB v2 speed --gotta look into it).

I've been using linux on the server side for years now, but this is the first time I'm really 100% pleased on using linux as a desktop user (not just to develop software) and on a notebook.

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