Last weekend I decided to go out on a limb and move to Ubuntu, replacing my Vista operating system. The reasons for this decisive move were many and varied:

• I use Linux exclusively when I program at work so it could sometimes be jarring to come home, starting programming for myself only to find that some things don’t work on Windows or at least, they don’t work quite as well
• Every server I have anything to do with is Linux so a Linux development environment at home would help when making sites live (I’m looking at you file-name capitalisation)
• Django is easier to get up and running on Linux and aptitude on Ubuntu makes installing python extensions a breeze
• I could easily go on…

So, armed with my freshly burned ISO of Intrepix Ibex (Ubuntu 8.10), I backed up all my data and began to install Linux.

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