A Day with Ubuntu, A Conclusion
Ubuntu worked great through the school day, except that it couldn’t log on to an unencrypted school wireless network, even with some config file hacking. I don’t know what the deal is, but I think it involves the ESSID of the school network. Anyway, that was really frustrating.
However, OOo worked great, even when taking notes, and font rendering exceeded expectations. It was fun to work with the system, and I think I will be more open to Gnome in the future after having used a more contemporary version. I hope that GTK moves seriously forward and cuts some fat as we move toward a (basically now hypothetical) Gnome 3.
Oh, multimedia support for GNOME blows, even using non-official packages. Unbelievably bad.