After a month living with a GNOME, I don't feel any taller

In an experiment to see what it would be like to take a full plunge into Windows-free-living on the desktop, I put myself on double secret probation to see if I could live without my Windows trinkets for 30 days, and 60 if I could stretch it. (At home though - at work would be a whole new challenge)

So in through the window comes the penguin...

The highlights so far are:

• Ubuntu 10.10 installer (for the desktop) is a very neat bit of kit. While I haven't actually tried it - I think it stands an excellent chance of passing the "even my mother could install it" test. I wouldn't dare let her try a Windows install.
• The baked in sync features of Chrome make it easy peasy to keep all your browsers at work and home in step. With the added benefit that I can expose all my personal details to Google to harvest for fun and profit (ho hum).
• A VirtualBox install of Ubuntu Desktop is hands down, the fastest, snappiest desktop VM I've  used. Windows XP was usable, Windows 7 was better, but it's waaaaaay faster than that.

So far, so good...