Tag: Ubuntu

  • Why I’ve accidentally migrated from Ubuntu back to Windows

    After four months with a new laptop, I realise that I’ve accidentally migrated from Ubuntu Linux back to Windows. This wasn’t my intention when my new Dell Vostro arrived in September. I started using Ubuntu back in 2006 and was, until September, predominantly a Linux user. My ratio of Ubuntu to Windows use was about…

  • Is a smartphone running Ubuntu the only device you’ll ever need?

    Canonical’s founder, Mark Shuttleworth, announced on Tuesday that its Ubuntu operating system has been modified to run on smartphones, opening up the possibility of using the same operating system on phones and PCs. A key selling point of Ubuntu for phones is the ability to dock an Ubuntu smartphone with a monitor and keyboard. It…

  • Netbooks were a flawed concept but so are tablets

    The announcement that Asus and Acer have stopped manufacture of netbooks (Sayonara Netbooks, Guardian 31 December 2012) brings to an end a promising but flawed experiment in low cost, high portability computing. They were an interesting, but insufficiently flexible tool, that has been overtaken by tablet computers in the consumer’s quest for highly portable computing.

  • Does 50 days without Windows mean the cutover to Ubuntu is complete?

    It’s 50 days now since I last used Microsoft Windows, which leads me to wonder whether my six year migration to Ubuntu Linux is finally complete. My relationship with Ubuntu began in early August 2006, when I inserted a live CD version of Ubuntu 6.06 into my laptop. I liked it enough after a couple…