Farewell, Windows Part 2
You might remember my post a few months ago about how I was finally ditching windows and switching to Linux. Unfortunately, that lasted about a week. Its not that I didn’t like it or things didn’t work, but mostly because I was too lazy to learn how to use everything. I slowly started going back to windows untill I decided to free up some hard drive space and get rid of it completly. I still wanted to learn Linux, but I couldn’t bare to let Windows go because most games are Windows only.
This week, the new version of Ubuntu Linux came out, and after hearing all the wonderful stuff that it’s supposed to have, I decided to try it out. Much like the previous version, Ubuntu is easy to install, has great hardware detection, and is suprisingly easy to use. After a bit of prying, I found that most many Windows-only games are running under Linux using WINE (a Windows emulator)
So I finally did it. I backed up all my important stuff, waved goodbye, and got rid of Windows. The best part? No more virus scans or spyware removal. As for programs, it ships with just about everything you’ll need, including music and video players, office software, web brower, IM client, and tons of other stuff. Not to mention, if it doesn’t include something out of the box, almost all software is available for free!
Ubuntu is available as a combination Live CD/Installer. This means you can run the entire OS off of a CD without touching anything on your computer, and then install it if you like it. You can download your copy here. I’m also ordering some CDs, so if you don’t want to download anything or have a slow connection, let me know and I’ll hook you up.
footnote: I managed to get everything backed up except for my IM chat logs. If any of you log your chats, and could send me a copy of ours, I would be ever so gratefull.