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Moving From Windows 7 to Ubuntu 11.10 – Day 30 – The Verdict
Posted on December 3, 2011 | 2 CommentsDay 30 using Ubuntu 11.10 has arrived. It has been a fairly pleasant experience thus far and a wealth of knowledge has been soaked up. Over the course of the... -
Oh Snap. Ubuntu 11.10 update – No boot.
Posted on November 10, 2011 | 3 CommentsOctober 7th, 2011 was one of “those” mornings. I went ahead and allowed all the updates in the update package manager to download and be applied. It was an overcast... -
Moving From Windows 7 to Ubuntu 11.10 – Day 4
Posted on November 6, 2011 | 1 CommentOn day 3 we finished up getting our productivity tools working. Now it’s time to customize things a bit to better fit my style. Customizing the Unity Launcher Change Wallpaper/Theme... -
Moving From Windows 7 to Ubuntu 11.10 – Day 3
Posted on October 26, 2011 | 2 CommentsOn Day 2, we converted out Microsoft Outlook .pst files and imported them into Thunderbird, found LibreOffice Writer and Calc as replacements for Microsoft Word and Excel and connected to... -
Moving From Windows 7 to Ubuntu 11.10 – Day 2
Posted on October 25, 2011 | 1 CommentOn Day 1, I took the plunge from Windows 7 to Ubuntu 11.10. We walked through installation, email, calendaring and skype. Today we’ll tackle the following: Convert Outlook archive .pst’s... -
Moving From Windows 7 to Ubuntu 11.10 – Day 1 Part 2
Posted on October 24, 2011 | No CommentsIn part 1 of this series, I took you through my experience taking the plunge in an attempt to free myself from Windows 7 and move to Ubuntu 11.10. Previously... -
Moving From Windows 7 to Ubuntu 11.10 – Day 1 Part 1
Posted on October 21, 2011 | No CommentsSo after my recent exploits once again playing with Ubuntu 11.04 and 11.10 betas, I decided to see if I could make the switch from Microsoft Windows 7 to Ubuntu... -
Ubuntu – Why is archive manager opening .docx files?
Posted on September 28, 2011 | 3 CommentsI’m sure others have posted similar but today I had an odd issue appear after updating my Ubuntu 11.10 Beta 2 laptop. I double-clicked on a Microsoft Word 2007+ .docx...
