It’s officially been a week since I purchased an Asus EeePC. I’ve been reading a lot about them since they were released last year and now that I’ve got it setup and tweaked to my liking I’m very pleased with my purchase. Over the last week of usage, my EeePC has morphed and evolved quite a bit.

Out of the box, the EeePC is a fun little machine, but the built in and simplified Xandros Linux is terribly underpowered. At first I didn’t mind the tabbed interface but once I started playing I realized that the basic OS was a little finicky. From the less than friendly Synaptic package manager to the excessive amounts of manual configuration, it just took too much work to really get the system configured to my liking. Yes it was fast, yes it had things like Flash and Firefox, and yes it did “just work” out of the box, but the nagging little details were too much for me.

Enter Ubuntu on the EeePC.