Who would have thought I would ever write this. I miss my Ubuntu Linux and I HATE (KILL DIE) Microsoft Office. At work I still swerve my mouse to the top left of the screen to find my software and "start" button and I still try to open spreadsheets from within Word. For all its (major) shortcomings, OpenOffice was still better than Microsoft. No, they don't pay me to write that. I also don't see the added value of Endnote in Word. It's just as horrendous as Bibtex in OpenOffice, or worse, because I haven't figured it out entirely yet. Yeah I know I should use Latex ...
I'm also hugely annoyed I can't mess with my own software and the way my computer works at work, and I am about to throw my laptop out of the window (hehe) out of despair. Unfortunately I am not geek enough to completely re-do my laptop with Ubuntu, but I might give it a try in the near future. I really wasn't all that great with Linux and I wouldn't say I really knew what I was doing, but things just worked a lot better and I could do much more. And interestingly some of the problems I had on my Linux machine in Freiburg persist on my Windows computer here. It must be related to me rather than the operating system ...
At least one Open Source Thing made it to work, R. I've been deeply immersed in writing R scripts and it is the most fun thing I have done in a long time. I must be going insane. Not long ago I would rather be found dead than writing my own data analysing scripts.
Now that I am on such good terms with the computer support guys at work (since wc footy) I might ask them if I can have Ubuntu, against all policies and such.
I'm also hugely annoyed I can't mess with my own software and the way my computer works at work, and I am about to throw my laptop out of the window (hehe) out of despair. Unfortunately I am not geek enough to completely re-do my laptop with Ubuntu, but I might give it a try in the near future. I really wasn't all that great with Linux and I wouldn't say I really knew what I was doing, but things just worked a lot better and I could do much more. And interestingly some of the problems I had on my Linux machine in Freiburg persist on my Windows computer here. It must be related to me rather than the operating system ...
At least one Open Source Thing made it to work, R. I've been deeply immersed in writing R scripts and it is the most fun thing I have done in a long time. I must be going insane. Not long ago I would rather be found dead than writing my own data analysing scripts.
Now that I am on such good terms with the computer support guys at work (since wc footy) I might ask them if I can have Ubuntu, against all policies and such.
