Check-in.

Ah, it's been a nice weekend.

After a huge amount of time, I've had the pleasure of using Linux (Ubuntu, to be exact) again. To my surprise, it is pretty decent. WINE (WINE Is Not an Emulator) really helps it.
However, it has faults, things that it lacks but Windows has. One would most definitely be a blogging client. Now, after a long search, I did find one that was able to connect to Blogspot, but it has no (embed) code support - text only. The result: blogging in a browser.
Secondly, and more importantly, there is a huge lack of .one support. Sure, most Linux users probably don't use OneNote all that much, but if the file contains information about the stuff you wanted to do for which you started using Ubuntu, it is a slight problem. Now, for clarification, the details of the action are the file, the large plan is in the head, and the action itself should result in a mix of the two. Why that needs Ubuntu, let's leave that be as mysterious as the nature of 'that'.
Thirdly, a lot of settings are not available via the UI. What I, personally, miss is the ability to change scroll speed on the mouse. A basic thing to expect, but lacking nonetheless.

All in all, Ubuntu is relatively smooth, integrates many applications (like the mail client, any IM clients, music player, even a Facebook status reader (really, that this is even installed as default)), even Optimus works (the NVidia method that switches between the Intel graphics chip and the NVidia chip, with the purpose of increasing battery time when powerful graphics is not needed). It is surprisingly intuitive (12.10 is, a couple versions back it was a nightmare), but I cannot help but think that Microsoft as a company has made some really good choices. They have made extremely nice programs (such as OneNote) and made sure that the practicality of them would not be surpassed by freeware or anything on other platforms. The toolbar is minimalistic in Windows and takes only the space it requires, unlike the Ubuntu one that consists of two bars and has a huge ribbon thing that has things only at the extreme ends.

Well, back to fiddling with it.