Well, hey, what’s up. I recently formatted my little laptop because I was kinda angry with Windows XP, since it was sometimes taking forever to do anything. I’m not trying to play geek-elitist or anything, but a friend helped me install Ubuntu 6.06 Dapper Drake, his favorite Linux distribution. It does everything right, and has probably the most intuitive interface I’ve seen. It’s somewhere between Windows and MacOS. I use Opera 9 on it because it’s even faster than Firefox. Opera’s actually slower in Windows. Also, GAIM can connect to Gtalk.

I have to keep a Windows partition going because I’m going to need it sooner or later. (hey there, Secret Identity, the album I never have time to work on.) But I’d like to spend most of my time in Ubuntu.

So, other than downloading mostly useless widgets or GIMPing my photos up, anyone know some cool stuff to do in Linux? Any small games worth getting? I think about writing some code sometimes; I used to be pretty good in Perl, but I’m not much into programming these days. I know enough about Unix from my CSE days to get around terminals.

In other news, the Nikon D50 that functioned as my most beloved extra appendage turned out to be defective and had to be returned. It’ll be a week or so until I have a camera back.

But whatever.

I’m playing Sword of Mana again from the beginning, as the guy, because I didn’t finish it the first time. Still good fun, even if I am fighting a villian named Dark Lord who calls himself Dark Lord.