I've finally done something I've been wanting to do for a long time now. I've had an old PC lying around that I built in high school and haven't really used properly since college. A year ago, I tried to bring it back to live as a music-only machine, but the aging copy of Vista was too much to battle against. I finally decided it was time to break my long relationship with Windows and erase it completely in favor of a fresh Ubuntu install. Originally, I tried the 10.04.1 Lucid Lynx distro, but the software updater quickly started breaking, so I had to manually upgrade to 10.10 Maverick Meerkat, which doen't have full support, but I don't care cos I'm edgy that way.

I'm loving it so far, with only a few hiccups. If any of you have aging PC hardware and want a fresh lease on your computer's life, I strongly recommend you take a look at Ubuntu. My computer feels like a brand new machine again, and I haven't touched the hardware since 2005, so I'm impressed to say the least.

Big thanks to Paul Temple for helping me get everything set up.