This is my desktop. It is made of Ubuntu, Fluxbox (with the Elfin2 theme) and xcompmgr. Windows is finally, finally gone.

Mostly. My biggest hesitation with switching completely was Fireworks. :) It’s known to not play so well with Wine (compatibility layer; lets Windows stuff run on non-Windows platforms), and dualbooting just kinda sucks. Shutting down linux and booting Vista just to do design work is ridiculous.

But then VirtualBox arrived.

This is Fireworks, running quite happily in Vista Professional, which is running in a virtual machine on desktop 2. The upshot of this is that Windows is a single keystroke away, should I ever need it (Zune, OneNote, browser tests, etc). Also, it is completely contained within its own little box. This is useful, and gives me an exaggerated feeling of power.

And that’s mostly all. Should anyone arrive here looking for help with their Toshiba A200 and its Intel HDA sound (weirder search engine referrals have happened), run the following (credit to Anthony for this):

sudo apt-get install linux-backports-modules

Cheers –