Now I'm hitting the 'annoyances' part. Nothing major, I just have to work out what I have to do to get things just right.

The biggest annoyance right now is updating over the Internet. I'm getting 40k/s, which when the first update is a whopping 300 MB is a tad annoying. And that's just security updates and a few recommended packages. Haven't even started adding software I want yet!

Whilst waiting, I fires up the external hard-drive and tried to play some music. The standard player is Banshee, which promptly hung up on me. No problem, I just switched to using Totem instead, but not a great start. Sound works fine but seems a little quiet.

I don't like the 'start' button either. It defaults to showing you 8 applications. There's a 'more applications' button so you can see the rest but this opens in a seperate window! Very annoying. Luckily it was pretty easy to revert to something that I'm more used to.