I’ve been thinking about ditching Vista for awhile, and a couple days ago I pulled the trigger. My Fujitsu U810 netbook lacks an optical drive, so I used Unetbootin to install Ubuntu 9.04.

Unfortunately, that process didn’t go as smoothly I would have liked. For some reason Unetbootin didn’t download the GNOME graphical environment. So when I booted into Ubuntu, all I had was the text-based command line. 

No problem, I just used apt-get to install GNOME. I’ve done this before, but it was very helpful having the Palm Pre at hand to look up the relevant articles on the Web.

EDIT: I have found a much better way to install Ubuntu 9.04 using a bootable flash drive.