be that as it may
I'm unemployed & have what I have
I don't really do anything except surf email & listen to music
if it weren't for the lack of sound I probably would have stayed on 8.04 for another year
this notebook is ok hardware wise, but gateway support has been horrible
I don't know about notebooks, but I've had some real over priced dogs when it comes to sony consumer electronics
my wife has a HP Vista notebook, which is good hardware wise, but has what must have one of the most bloated sets of preinstalled software ever
![Cheesy :D](https://www.computerhope.com/forum/Smileys/classic/cheesy.gif)
she's been using the unbuntu pc from time to time over the last 6 months & is going to be ready for a dualboot very soon
good to keep a copy of windows around for some apps until I can figure out work arounds
my misson for the past couple of days has been getting the file sharing to work on the 2 linux boxes
the pc is upgrading to 10.04 lts as I write. There doesn't seem to be a decent tutorial, I think all I need is samba & gshare, but we shall see