Installed Linux this weekend » Ubuntu 8.04 (released April 2008). Woohoo! I'm stoked.
Installation couldn't have been easier. After creating a 20-gig Ext3 partition on my new hard drive (see previous entry), I answered a few simple questions, stated my time zone and » Voila!
But then I booted up and couldn't connect to the internet. Ugh. Learned since that 'Wireless' is one of Ubuntu's biggest weak-spots.
Gotta be the worst place for a weakspot. Cuz everybody is wireless these days. And without internet, your PC is pretty-much worthless.
I was tempted to give up. Tried many networking configs. Nothing worked.
"Shouldn't be this difficult,"
I murmured, getting frustrated. (Ain't like I've never configured a network connection before. Only so many variables.)
I even carried my laptop to the coffee shop, where they have free internet, with NO password (WEP/WPA), and I still couldn't connect. So it wasn't an encryption problem (like I thought).