BiteMe
Expert Member
I cant begin to tell you guys how long I have been using Microsoft products for. And the amount of work I have put into learning their stuff, it has paid the bills for almost two decades now.
At the same time, no use having blinkers hey...so back in 1998 I started dabbling with FreeBSD, and then Redhat 5.0....and Mandrake 6.0 (before it changed to Mandriva) but there was always a problem..either in config or in missing programs, which "forced" me back to windows. And as I needed it for work that also kept me on the microsoft wagon.
But In january that changed a bit.. I woke up one morning just thinking to myself "stuff this". And half an hour later Ubuntu 7.1 was running on my laptop. I thought I would give it a try again. It is still running on that laptop. The only cd I have used was the install cd, every other program has been pulled in via synaptic or compiled from source. No product keys or nagging rubbish.
So last weekend I took my main windows machine, stuck vnc on it, made it headless, shared out the important stuff and put it in the corner of the room, with a wireless nic. I got my bag of bits and built another machine up, a little semtron with 512mb and onboard everything, with a radeon 9200 card
I dub thee "humble"
Again, put ubuntu on it, configure, compiz, all good.
Yesterday, I installed World of Warcraft on Humble, running via wine. Added burning crusade patch and configured it for a free realm. Now my son is happy too.
Over christmas I got him an eeepc, runnign xandros but it'll have Ubuntu on it soon enough.
at this point, in terms of installs, linux is now running on more devices in my house than windows. I am actively working on replacing the remaining windows machines with linux equivalents. I'm also going to do LS101, LS102 and LS199 courses to become ubuntu certified.
So may I take this opportunity, while I have the soapbox, to say to everyone else "After a long time and having tried enough variants in the process, I am confident that Linux can take care of all the needs of 99% of the pc population. It really is good enough now."
The OS is no longer king, it is but a platform launcher for your web browser. Flash, java, youtube... all of these dont care what your base OS is, the OS is for file interaction, nothing more. Microsoft must be cr@pping themselves.
At the same time, no use having blinkers hey...so back in 1998 I started dabbling with FreeBSD, and then Redhat 5.0....and Mandrake 6.0 (before it changed to Mandriva) but there was always a problem..either in config or in missing programs, which "forced" me back to windows. And as I needed it for work that also kept me on the microsoft wagon.
But In january that changed a bit.. I woke up one morning just thinking to myself "stuff this". And half an hour later Ubuntu 7.1 was running on my laptop. I thought I would give it a try again. It is still running on that laptop. The only cd I have used was the install cd, every other program has been pulled in via synaptic or compiled from source. No product keys or nagging rubbish.
So last weekend I took my main windows machine, stuck vnc on it, made it headless, shared out the important stuff and put it in the corner of the room, with a wireless nic. I got my bag of bits and built another machine up, a little semtron with 512mb and onboard everything, with a radeon 9200 card
I dub thee "humble"Again, put ubuntu on it, configure, compiz, all good.
Yesterday, I installed World of Warcraft on Humble, running via wine. Added burning crusade patch and configured it for a free realm. Now my son is happy too.
Over christmas I got him an eeepc, runnign xandros but it'll have Ubuntu on it soon enough.
at this point, in terms of installs, linux is now running on more devices in my house than windows. I am actively working on replacing the remaining windows machines with linux equivalents. I'm also going to do LS101, LS102 and LS199 courses to become ubuntu certified.
So may I take this opportunity, while I have the soapbox, to say to everyone else "After a long time and having tried enough variants in the process, I am confident that Linux can take care of all the needs of 99% of the pc population. It really is good enough now."
The OS is no longer king, it is but a platform launcher for your web browser. Flash, java, youtube...
all of these dont care what your base OS is, the OS is for file interaction, nothing more. Microsoft must be cr@pping themselves.
