For years Michael and I just ate the same veggie burgers, Flame Grilled Boca Burgers. Boca tries to be like real beef, complete with “grill marks” on some. They fall short of this (meat eaters tend to run away screaming), but I like them.
But after eating the same ones every week I was starting to develop a taste aversion. When we were shopping a couple weeks ago I decided to pick up a different brand, Amy’s Kitchen meatless burgers, Chicago Style. Unlike Boca, Amy’s doesn’t try very hard to taste like meat, and soy is not the largest component (mushrooms and other vegetables are).
The verdict?
Amy’s Kitchen Meatless Chicago Burger
Last night I installed Ubuntu on R2Q5, no more Fedora!
Install attempt # 1 – 4:00 pm
The install started out going fine, but then I ran into a bunch of errors when installing the base system. I logged onto forums to see what the trouble could be, but when I tried the fix they suggested I ran into more errors. The problem? It seems the cd-rom stopped responding during the middle of the install. Stupid old thing, it’s done that before. So I had to do a complete shut down for a few minutes and then bring it back up and hope the cdrom was seen by the BIOS again. It was.
Dinner break from 5-6:30 pm
Install attempt #2 – 6:30 pm
The install was going fine, but once again I was hung up at installing the base system. The error led me to believe the CD was at fault (“try burning at a lower speed,” it said), but since burning an ISO is such a PITA I refused to give in. On a whim I went to the next step in the install to install all the rest of the packages, and hope the installer would be smart enough to see that the whole base wasn’t there. And it worked! The base system installed without a problem. The rest of the install from the CD went flawlessly. Then I got to boot into the new install.
The first thing the new install seems to do is pull up apt and finish installing by updating packages and things. Apt downloaded 80+ packages and I had to sit around and wait for it to install them all, it took about an hour. No GUI, just text on my screen zooming by for an hour. Eventually that was done and I log into my new system!
You set up a user which will have sudo privs (root account is disabled by default), and use that. It uses a nice GUI login, and dumps you into Gnome. It looks really slick! I started poking around and I noticed that it was much nicer than the default desktop that Fedora gives you, and it just looks so much nicer. I went through the menus and noticed that it doesn’t install as much as Fedora did, but that’s perfectly alright, Fedora installs too much.
By then it was about 9pm and I was getting too tired to play with Ubuntu, so I haven’t started checking out how apt works with it or anything. The package management system is really the key for me, Fedora has come a long way, but the up2date GUI still freezes up, Fedora’s yum is painfully slow, and Fedora’s apt is clunky and imperfect at resolving dependencies.
I’m optimistic though, Ubuntu might very well take it’s place at the top of my “to recommend to newbies” list.