major difference

a week or so ago, we woke up one morning to discover our computer wouldnt start, truly kaputt. showing only "the ominous blue screen". so ph was able to restart in safe mode long enough to recover the previous months' files (we back up regularly). and we decided to take a plunge and convert to linux (ubuntu, if you're curious). we had been flirting with the idea for a long time, since neither of us like or need windows software... but we had no good reason to uninstall a working system. so when we were at the point where we would have to reload the system software ANYWAY, it just made sense.

and WOW - i love it! its so fast, its so easy to figure out.. almost like working on a mac again.