Switching to the Penguin

Finally it's done.

After months of talking about it, I finally dropped Windows and installed Ubuntu.

I decided to switch because I was tired of reinstalling Windows every year or so otherwise my machine was slowing to a crawl. Plus I mostly use open source software anyway. And I kept installing utilities to help me have a real prompt (I can't live without grep anymore...).

My first impression is that apt-get makes it a breeze to install a new machine from scratch. No need to download all the apps separately like I did on Windows, pretty much everything is one apt-get away.

A very positive experience so far!