Trying Linux again… :::sigh:::

Will I ever learn?

I was reading a thread about how OpenSuSE 10.1 is buggy as hell, particularly when it comes to installing the bootloader (duh!) A few people had said that 10.0 was a much more stable release, so I fired up the bit torrent client and grabbed the OpenSuSE 10.0 .iso file. 

Got it installed, and indeed, it wrote the bootloader without an incident.  Played around in it for awhile, but really wanted to go to 10.1 so I could reinstall XGL, so I did the update routine with a bit of trepidation.  Amazingly, everything worked just fine and I got XGL working again.

Only, after getting XGL working, I was unable to launch Firefox from the desktop shortcut.  Jeez – is anything going to go correctly when it comes to Linux?

Vista – I’m so glad the bitch is gone…

Well, was finally able to get Vista fully removed from my machine.

Decided to install Kubuntu 6.0.6. Amazingly, it didn’t fry the MBR during installation, but something else odd happened (Although, I now know why.)  For this particular attempt, I decided to install Linux over the top of the Vista install. After installing Kubuntu and rebooting, I was presented with the Linux bootloader (don’t recall whether it was LILO or GRUB, but it doesn’t matter.) So, I boot into Linux to make sure everything is working correctly.  After getting the networking set up, I reboot to check that XP works.