Ubuntu on the Thinkpad X300: impressions and installation tips

problems I decided that I would take a shot at Ubuntu running on a Thinkpad X300. I'm a power business user who has enough technical background to use the command line and utilities so Ubuntu didn't scare me. However there were a few quirks that I ran into. For example I had to reinstall Pidgin 3 times and it seems to get corrupted on a whim. I also had a day where Firefox would crash every few minutes. These are not things the average user can deal with gracefully. The positive side of those experiences was the Synaptic package manager worked flawlessly to reinstall the applications that were acting weird. I also was able to get Adobe AIR and Twhirl running with no problems. We were able to run Microsoft Office with no problem via CrossOver and it loads faster than on Windows or the Mac by a shocking margin. I did however... [read full story]