Getting to grips with Linux
It's Saturday afternoon and I should be lying on the sofa sipping sweet tea and watching Football Focus.
Instead, I'm stamping loudly round the living room swearing like a sailor, looking for a cat to kick and cursing a Finnish computer programmer whose name meant nothing to me only days before.
The source of all this disquiet sits on the coffee table looking defiant yet lovely.
It's £370 worth of brand spanking new laptop, sleek glossy black, 10 inches wide, give or take, and weighs about the same as a chunky hardback novel.
Hippy ideals
It's not the machine itself that's driving me to violence, but the operating system that controls its programs and hardware: Linux.
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