Ubuntu: about a week later

With a couple exceptions, everything on Ubuntu has "just worked." And the things that haven't just automatically worked I've gotten to work with a few questions in the proper forums.

I plugged in a digital camera and it says "Hey! There's a digital camera. Wanna get the pics off it?"

Well, yes... yes I do.

I put a blank CD in and it asked how did I want to burn it, data or music?

Popped in the little flash memory card reader -- you know... the one that Windoze would not recognize no matter what I did -- and it just worked. It just worked. Now I can get the raw tracks off of my digital audio recorder straight to the computer as wave files... not have to run it in, two tracks at a time, as audio... essentially recording it twice.

I think I mentioned in my previous post on the subject how I just plugged in the ethernet card and it worked.

No driver or other installs for any of those devices. They all worked off of what came on the Ubuntu CD.

And, of course, it's free.

And now, I'm sitting in the Belltown Uptown Espresso, the same wifi cafe as the last time I posted remotely, but this time I'm sure it's just working. I've already switched back and forth between the wifi card and the ethernet card at home and neither one confuses the other. They just work.

I have a few more things to do in order to bring this up to the same functionality as my Windoze box (i.e. do the same stuff I do over there). In some cases it'll mean learning new programs, in others it'll just be using the Linux version.

Take that, Micro$oft!

(edit 10/11/06: Hopefully this will actually post this time. Not the wifi's screwup, blogger is just hanging when you try to publish... even when, like now, it's via the ethernet at home)