It’s been an arduous process, but I’ve been converted, sort of.
I’ve always used Windows, since that’s what’s come with my computers and therefore what I’ve been familiar with. But two weeks ago my friend C showed me his Ubuntu “Hardy Heron” (Linux) system, and, like a vegan faltering because of the pretty parsley sprinkled over the roasted chicken he sees on the menu, I fell immediately in love with the 3D Desktop Cube feature.
My conversion was not without setbacks, the worst occurring after a long telephone conversation with C about working out some of the bugs in my installation (a conversation preceded by other-bug exorcisms over the phone with brother-in-law D) during which C and I reached a conclusion: I wanted a Windows partition, a Linux partition, and a data partition accessible by either of the operating systems.
“But you probably shouldn’t try the repartitioning yourself,” C said, “unless you really know what you’re doing.”
“Right,” I said.
What did I do as soon as I hung up? Yep. And lost everything. Photos, music, even my goodbadi backup file.
Thankfully, though, my historically ever-present insecurities about the soundness of technological archiving paid off, since I had backed up all of our photos and data and even Windows onto an external drive. That recovery process took more than a good eight hours, but it worked.
Now I am using Windows when I feel like it (read: need to sync my iPod) and Ubuntu whenever else (read: feel like twirling a virtual cube). I’m trying not to use either, the rest of the time.
(Although it’s quite obvious that for the moment, anyway, I’ve returned to my “default position,” as M calls it.)
