Reinstalling Linux Ubuntu brings a flood of memories
Memories came back to me as I downloaded Ubuntu in my brother's Lenovo ThinkPad. It was his old work computer, wiped of any traces of work-related memory, and reduced to the laptop's version of a tabula rasa. It runs on Windows, a fine operating system whose most current version feels foreign to me. (I think Windows reached its peak of elegance and user-friendliness with Windows 98.) This ThinkPad looks old but not that old. It bears scratches of use. I love this aesthetic: the gamit na gamit look. The Japanese may call it wabi-sabi, the imperfection that comes with the natural cycle of decay. I automatically decided to partition the hard drive to house both Windows and Linux operating systems. I still had the skill to do that many years later, like riding a bicycle. I could think of no better Linux distribution than Ubuntu. Has it really been 17 years since the ISO disc had arrived in the mail , addressed to my UP Diliman ...