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Sick of the Soft

Author: Boompoet
You may remember I built a PC not to long ago and it’s still kickin’. I installed Windows XP 64 bit with every intention of replacing it with Ubuntu 9.04 “Jaunty Jackalope” when I had the opertunity… it is still running windows. While I may be excited at the prospect of a new Windows OS like Win 7 releasing in October, I want my Linux and I want it on my primary system. More over, I want to play games and use Photoshop IN Linux.
I was told recently that this is doable and I plan to test that theory by formatting my system tonight and installing Ubuntu. It may be after my upcoming trip to Sacramento, but I will find out soon if I’ll be able to WoW (yes I reactivated the account for a month or two) and Photoshop CS4 my way to glory.
By the by, I’m currently running Linux Mint on my smaller, older system. It’s almost as pretty as Ubuntu and like Ubuntu, it’s using the Gnome gui which, as we all know, is much better than KDE. Do we all know that? I don’t weven think we all agree on that, but it’s my opinion. At any rate, it’s a nice system and I’ll be installing Fedora on yet another old system when it arrives at the PC grave yard, aka my home office. One day I’ll get around to posting screen shots of all these desktops so you can see what it is I’m rambling on and on and on about.
It has been some time since I posted and I will post more again soon when I make my DC trip, but for the time being, I just wanted to let my faithful readers… um, reader… know that I’m still alive and I LOVE my new computer!
I built a Dual Core 3.5 Ghz system with 4 gigs of ram, 150 Gb hard driver, and installed Windows XP x64. Why did I not go with 64 bit Ubuntu? As much as I love that OS, Linux does not have the support I need for Photoshop (just got CS 4) and various audio editing programs I want to use and I don’t feel I should really need to learn new programs when the one’s I’ve put extensive time into learning are doing exactly what I want them to do.
I considered installing the beta for Windows 7 (AKA Blackcomb or Vienna) x 64 on the system, but it will go inactive before the full release date around Christmas so I figured, I’ll grab it when it’s released. From the reviews I’ve been reading, Windows 7 is a vast improvement over Vista. The shell is more similar, but closer to Windows than OS X and the system is a bit more configurable. I also understand, like many of their 64 bit operating systems, they’ll be basing it on Windows Server which increases the stability. I’ve read rumors that they will only be offering Windows 7 in 64 bit and dropping 32 all together. If that’s the case, many older systems are going to be hard pressed for support. Looks like I need to start building my parents a new one.
I have been considering installing the dreaded Vista. Why? Well, I have been reading tech blogs and reviews doing the back and forth between XP and Vista almost since Vista came out. Recently, more people have been saying that Vista is more stable in image editing programs and has more driver support… we’ll see.
In a nut shell, I’m happy with the hardware, now I need to find a happy medium with the software.