mmmmmm, geeky!

i installed suse on my desktop machine at home about a week ago, and i have to say i'm pretty happy with it. the only hiccup was that my soundcard didn't work, but a quick search on google groups turned up the answer and i had it fixed in less than 5 minutes. (the fix was trivial, and didn't involve anything as arcane as tweaking drivers or editing conf files).

that machine is used mostly for surfing and playing music, and natalie occasionally uses it to write a paper, and it's been a breeze to use for all those things.

the main things i miss about running under windows are using itunes rather than juk, and playing the new myst game, but since the suse installer quickly and easily set up its own partition, it's a breeze to restart and boot into xp.

and i'm working on getting wine working, after which i think i can probably run pretty much windows-free.