I tried several times downloading and installing Wubi - a unsupported installer for Ubuntu Linux that creates Ubuntu within a file instead of creating a partition. It appears there were some issues with the earlier Wubi installer in Windows Vista and Windows 2000 Pro - the two OS'es I attempted to install on. But the latest update worked.

    I booted in. The interface wasn't too hard to get used to. I downloaded the latest updates. Okay - so far so good. I played some solitaire, tried some blackjack and chess. Looked at the different applications that were available to me.

    Now it was time to boot up Firefox. I moved over to CBS's Innertube where I ran into my first problem - Flash wasn't installed. No biggy. I clicked on the link to Adobe's website and downloaded the installer. Double-clicked - nothing. After several tries I ran it in the terminal where I received several textual prompts. Hmmm...This is not friendly.

    Okay, that's done. It wasn't very friendly, but still doable. I click to watch an episode but am confronted by a message telling me I need RealPlayer. Okay, makes sense. So I download the bin file. Double-click - nothing happens. What is a bin file anyways I wonder (vaguely it seems that I remember it is simiar to an exe).

   I do a Google search. Some Ubuntu forums and wiki articles come up - try two fixes but neither works for me and both require accessing the terminal. I try navigating the terminal using the DOS commands - dir, cd. That doesn't work either. Would be nice to have some help here that told me the correct Linux based commands. I decide I want to actually watch something so I restart into Windows Vista.

   So far thats around three strikes for Ubuntu. Its not bad, but the install process is definetly one of my largest complaints thus far.