Switched to ubunto-9.10 from opensuse-11.2

After struggling for a long time with opensuse-11.2+kde, i finally switched over to ubuntu-9.10. Here are the problems that i faced with opensuse+kde:
1) Frequent hang-up of GUI.
2) Suse upgrade screwed my pdf reader - evince.
3) Pulling the power cable from laptop would make the screen go black.

So i downloaded the ubuntu-9.10 iso. I did not have a blank cdrom, so thought of burning the iso to a usb pen drive. I used Lili Usb Creater to burn the ISO file to a pen-drive, note that, this works only on windows. I could not find similar tool for linux in my limited google search operation.
Finally, i backed up my thunderbird folder, firefox bookmarks, and other interesting documents to another partition. Reboot the machine from USB pen drive. Installation was pretty smooth, and it hardly took 15 minutes to install. I like this thing about ubuntu that it does not give package selection option during installation. After installation, i had to configure a few shortcuts that i was used to previously. I did not like the default Alt-F2 "run application" program. Needed to lookup for something that could search applications based on keywords. So i looked up for a package-manager which could work like yast. I found Synaptic package manager for GUI and aptitude for text console. Started synaptic and installed gnome-deskbar. Surprisingly, Alt-F3 was the shortcut assigned. Amrish, the suse ambassador, came up with something new which used the useless windows key on the keyboard. After that i installed thunderbird, created a softlink to my previous thunderbird folder. I am impressed by Thunderbird. It works so smooth. Next i imported the bookmarks in firefox. And so here i am, struggling to learn shortcuts and installing new applications.

Cheers from ubuntu blogger!