“For a few weeks, I’ve been slowly, slowly learning my way
around the Open Source operating system Ubuntu Linux. Lots of
things work just fine. Indeed, they work incredibly well
considering that I downloaded an entire operating system with
office software for free from the net. But every now and then I run
into things that force me to boot Windows XP or lower my
expectations. They may be fully possible to do in Ubuntu, though
too complicated for me to accomplish at my current level of
ignorance; or semi-possible to do in Ubuntu through an ugly kludge
that’s not worth it; or they may simply be impossible to do in
Ubuntu…”