I won't be able to do this right away, because I've gotta work tonight. I'm off Monday and Tuesday night, so I'll be spending some time reorganizing the living quarters and cleaning up. Part of that routine will involve removing Microsoft Windows from all of my computers. They will all have Ubuntu on them from here on out. For official business I'll be sticking with the LTS releases, especially since 12.04 will have support for five years.
The reason why I'm doing it is simple. Microsoft has been making some horrible decisions as of late. If it's not UEFI, it's their vision of what an interface should be (and no, calling it a user experience is antithetical to what an actual user experiences when using Metro UI). At least with Ubuntu I can choose a different interface if Unity annoys me too much. Truth be told, I don't mind it, but I'm glad I have other options because Canonical has the good sense to allow spinoffs. I don't do a lot of gaming, but with Steam being ported to the Linux platform, it could be available in Ubuntu before we know it. While I won't be able to use the dedicated graphics with dedicated memory on my notebook, I'm sure the Catalyst drivers will catch up to the point where I can just switch. Besides, the dv7 has enough power on its own to where it doesn't really matter anyway.
All of this preparation will assist me in a transitional point of my life as well. I've got an important decision to make, and if everything's nice and cleaned up, it'll make everything so much smoother.
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