I was looking at videos of Beryl and said to myself; "I must have this". Despite the fact that I'm perfectly happy on my Windows XP machine, or that my XP is so custom setup with a special command line terminal and cygwin, or that I know it so well inside and out, I still want crazy effects damn it!
So I went and did research on it for two hours. Can I run Dreamweaver in Linux? What about test internet explorer? Wait how do I burn CDs in linux? Will my Audigy 2 Platinum work? After finding out the answer to all of those was a Yes. (You can even install Office 2003 and Internet Explorer 4,5,6, and 7!)
After I decided to try it out I installed Partition Magic 8.1 and set myself up ready to partition my F: drive for 30 GB of Ubuntu. 2GB on swap and the rest on / and /home. Sounds great.... until I get a 1513 error. Even after pulling a CHKDSK /F it still gives the error but since I already downloaded Ubuntu 6.10 and I would need to load up Knoppix for QParted anyway I figured what the heck and I burned both and restarted to see how the install of Ubuntu 6.10 is.
About 30 seconds into loading the operating system from disk (Yes, Ubuntu's install loads the OS from a LiveCD and you install in the OS itself) it crashes at the loading screen.... consistently. So now I'm back in Windows and after asking some people I find out that apparently version 7.04 of Ubuntu, the supposedly Beta version of it, is more stable on the hardware end with better hardware support. So I download this and load it up. Works great and all! I even tried out playing One Piece HD RAW 303 of my NTFS drive and it worked flawlessly. But now back into Knoppix, it doesn't even detect my drive that I want partitioned....
So much for that. By now it's 6AM and I'm so beat so I just called it quits. Next time it will take more then pretty graphics to get me to go through this.....
