While I was installing Vista on the new computer, I started installing Ubuntu on my laptop while I was waiting. After I finally got Windows Vista installed on Darren’s computer, I put on Ubuntu. More here

Seriously. 30 minutes. No joke. And let me tell you, it’s slick. Even just looking at the difference in the size between the OS makes me wonder why I haven’t been honing my linux skills all along (to my credit, I used unix pretty exclusively for years when I was in college yet did not have a computer).