I snagged a new laptop at work, one that was a little more powerful then my aging Dell. To get started, I formatted the hard drive and began installing Windows XP. Windows is far from my first choice in operating systems, but I need at least one work machine that is officially IT supported, and for reasons I will never understand they don’t support Linux. Not officially at least. They all run Linux, BSD, or Solaris boxes but they don’t support anything other than Windows.

So after three tries (three!) I successfully installed XP and the Dell specific drivers.  Then, I started the process of running Windows Update.  That was yesterday.  I’m now a few hours into today, and I’m not even close to finished.  And I’ve only rebooted a dozen times…

Remind me again why anyone wouled actually choose to run Windows?  Seriously…  Please, please, please, for the love of all that is holy and good, check out Ubuntu!