Rant

With the start of college, I had to start using a calendar in order to keep track of the times of my classes, and what days each class was on. To do this, I simply used to Google Calendar, and then setup my phone to pull in that calendar. Now, in the second week, I want to be able to keep track of various assignments and essential dates, but my phone's interface is hardly a convient way to enter the neccessary information, nor can I simply use the web interface for Google Calendar because not every class has wireless access.

Every Ubuntu installation since Ubuntu 9.10 installs Grub2 by default. In many ways this is great - Grub2 has a number of new features, and has become more portable and modular than older versions of Grub. The catch is, if you don't need the new features that it provides, it can make life much harder if you ever need to configure grub. My system has often been inconsistent in the way it refers to its hard drives, which means if my hardware configuration changes at all, I have to boot into a live CD/USB to fix the Grub configuration to refer to the correct drive.

It doesn't matter what operating system you run, there is always a risk of a security flaw. Even in Unix style operating systems, various programs have been created which take advantage of the user, often in the form of a Trojan (malware which masquerades as something else so that the user can install it). And while you are more likely to get away with not running an Antivirus on Linux then you are on Windows, don't take the risk.

I really don't enjoy using Windows for general purpose things - I'll grant that some special applications require this, and I understand that many businesses use Windows as the only operating system on their network.