Geeking Out

I'm having a geek-out-of-body-experience and I have to tell you why.  Our home has finally gone Windowless!  That's right, we are completely a Linux-shop now with Inna running Xubuntu and Ubuntu running on my box.  Her poor little laptop was suffering under the "load" of WinMe that it came with it.  How can WinMe be a load?  I don't know, but the thing was as sluggish little critter.  Given the choice of trying to fix the problem (by probably reinstalling Me) or doing away with the problem completely, I opted for the latter.  Xubuntu amazed me in that it all just worked.  I expected some issues with the wireless card (seeing that a lot of people have issues on this particular point) but lucky me, it worked off the bat.  I have to admit that I do have a Windows 2000 VM session that I have to use on occasion, so maybe we aren't 100% Windowless?