I had previously been running Ubuntu Jaunty and decided to do a fresh install of Karmic on my work machine (a 20″ iMac). I waited this long to make the jump because I still saw a lot of updates coming in every day on my machines at home, so I figured it would be better to wait a bit. Lately the amount of updates had decreased and were mostly for packages which weren’t too important.
I must say, everything went without a hitch, except for that the screen had lines moving over it on the open source ATi driver. So I installed the restricted driver from the Hardware Drivers tool and everything works beautifully.
I also had to change something to get my sound working but all-in-all I’m quite happy with how it went. Got everything up and running within an hour or two, something I can’t say if I had been running Windows (or even Mac OSX for that matter if you take into account it’s a clean install).
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