“I’m a very fussy user when it comes to my operating systems and
I have managed to get by with Windows XP for a long time, but its
days are numbered. Vista is looming and I refuse to install that
rubbish, so I have chosen Kubuntu 7.10. (edit: I have tried Vista
at work for over a month and didn’t like it.
Apart from the ruined explorer, the print spooler crashes on a
daily basis and it’s more sluggish than XP on my Dell Latitude
D830.) Normal Ubuntu users might be wondering why I chose
Kubuntu…“To demonstrate just how fussy I am, I installed Kubuntu because
it uses Konqueror as the file manager which means I can draw
selection rectangles when highlighting files in detailed list
view…”
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