I have had it with Ubuntu Linux. I’m kicking the penguin to the curb. The proverbial straw that broke the camel’s proverbial back was this morning. I was writing a blog post on my HP Pavilion dv6000 notebook running Ubuntu 9.10 when everything locked up on me. I couldn’t save what I had written and I couldn’t even close Firefox.

That was it. This wasn’t the first time Ubuntu had locked up on me, but it will be my last.

I got on my desktop PC and went to the HP website. Armed with my laptop’s serial number and model number, I was able to easily order a restore disc for only $15 that will install Windows XP back on my laptop. When I first installed Ubuntu, I wiped the entire hard drive, including the partition that held the Windows XP restore image, and reformatted it for Linux. Because of this, I needed a restore disc.

I don’t think I’ve ever had a PC lockup on me as much as this laptop has with Ubuntu installed.  I’m just tired of it.