A year on Ubuntu

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My most important (and probably only) new year’s resolution back in 2008 was to finally start using Ubuntu as my primary operating system and not give up in the process. I had tried installing and using Ubuntu before, but always at some point, I screwed up and went back to good old Windows XP 64-bit. Yes, I had a great vision a couple of years earlier, to already use a 64-bit processor of AMD. So 2008 was absolutely to become Y-year for my linux experience. The reason why I wanted to switch, was simply because I didn’t fancy paying for Windows. I already had a copied version of XP, and I didn’t feel particularly bad about that (morally), but I was getting tired of it and wanted something new. Here goes my story.
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