Netbook posing: update

Well I did install Linux, and indeed there was one thing it couldn't do: connect to the Imperial College wireless network. It turned out Linux didn't natively support Imperial's substantial wireless security fluff.* Infuriating it was to have to go back to XP, cap in hand, once more.

Linux has come on leaps and bounds in recent years, but from my experience there has always been crucial things you couldn't do without significant knowledge of how it worked inside. It has never, in my mind, been a genuine alternative to Windows or Mac OS for the average computer user. Roll on Google Chrome!

* I believe some of the latest distros do support this. I shall have to have another go when I'm supposed to be writing my thesis.