Failing

This week has seen a couple of fails for me, the most prominent of them was the failure of my Ubuntu installation and then my Windows installation.

For some reason I noticed bits of my panels had gone missing and things weren't working quite right. Since Ubuntu doesn't take long to install, I opted to go for a reinstall which took me about an hour and a half to completely reinstall, update and install and configure all of my applications. Essentially returning my Ubuntu installation to the same state before the failure.

No sooner had I got Ubuntu back up and running did my Windows installation die on me. This could be easily fixed by simply repairing the MBR, however I am well overdue a clean install, which I have now been forced into.

I have yet to reinstall Windows, primarily because I am lazy and it currently has nothing to offer to me that Ubuntu can't do, other than my games. I will probably get round to doing it tomorrow whilst repairing the soon to arrive "dead" laptop that fell over while installing Vista SP2.

The big question is, which will take longer? The installation and reconfiguration of Windows XP or trying to repair Windows Vista?