I have switched to Ubuntu for 2 days now. It's awesome, I'm using awesome window manager. I'm more efficient than usual. I have got wireless to work(not manually), battery status to work, start up programs to work and more. It's a interesting experience.
It's not the first time I used linux, but this is the first time my only machine is running Linux. So I have no way to get back to windows except on library machines.
I shall get a new laptop this November and I will put Debian on it.
I'm using bitlbee+irssi for IM. Meebo when I'm in the library.
Currently I'm learning to use vi, and I just realized how to paste in urxvt.
It still take me a few seconds to do some basic operations. If i do them often enough, I will get used to them.
I'm using Texlive+Kile+graphviz+dot2tex for homeworks. I have already produced AMS 301 hw with directed and undirected graphs! Epic! Soon I will be able to create finite state machine diagrams in LaTeX and in pdf. When I graduate I will have every single hw I have ever written in PDF files! (although I have no idea what the questions are because I never record them, but looking though those work formatted is AWESOME.)
I won't be using Chinese anytime soon. The input method for Chinese on windows system is much superior than the Linux version. I will wait till Google Pinyin have a Linux version.
Something not awesome:
1. SBU access irc requires SSL.
2. Airnet pptp thing is not working. I can't be on IRC while I'm in the library and places.
3. I still use the mouse.
4. Stony Brook doesn't offer Linux version of Maple and Mathematica.
I wish I can get k desktops and use Synergy to connect them all together. I can even use different operating system at the same time. AWESOME.
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Emacs is superior!!! Vi
Emacs is superior!!! Vi users must die!
on the right track...
It seems as though you're on the right track, lemme just give you a few pointers:
-Debian, not *buntu
-KDE, not GNOME
-vim, not eMacs
-QuickSynergy HowTo http://gnuski.blogspot.com/2008/02/quicksynergy-quick-howto.html
-Chinese input with Scim or Skim or ibus
There ya go ;) Seriously though, welcome to FLOSS and we hope that you enjoy your stay for a very long time.
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