Update: KDE4, Ubuntu, Laptop

I haven't been able to write in my blog for some time, so I decided to update it now, because I have some free time (not much, but enough to make a post).

I got a new laptop a dell vostro 1500. And it came with vista :S so.. I replaced it with ubuntu, I installed ubuntu because I wanted to start using it quickly, and didn't want to mess with Arch, but I'm going to install Arch on it soon. But well.. Ubuntu works flowlessly .. everything just worked out of the box(other than the built-in mic, it required some hacking).. webcam, wireless, it all worked. So I'm pretty happy for selecting the vostro 1500 :) but it's not for sale now, dell has introduced the vostro 1510 :P

First I used GNOME, because that came by default. But I switched to KDE4.1 few weeks ago. And it's good. I actually like the new Kate, it makes Coding much more interesting :P with the fancy GUI. And the Oxygen stuff in KDE is quite nice for the eyes too.. but it's still missing some stuff, but i feel more at home, when using KDE :P

I don't like the new Amarok, as much as I like the old one.. so I'm stull using the old/stable Amarok :P and, I had some problems with the media buttons in my laptop with Amarok, but now it works fine :)

I have to invoke the guidance-power-manager to enable power saving modes.

The new kde-pim suite is great, but it can be more stable and less buggy.

I'm quite happy with my laptop, other than for the *shiny* vista sticker on it :P I'm planning to replace it with some better stickers. If anyone reading this has spare sticker you can always send them to me ;) same goes for any extra swag that you guys have :P :P.

Here are some pics of the laptop :P