Go Go Geekboy

For years I used Windows. I remember when DOS was king and Windows 3.0 came out and I was so against switching from the old command line interface to the GUI based system. Then Windows 95 came around and everyone seemed to flock to it like flies to manure.

I remember the different versions of Windows up to it’s most recent Vista incarnation. And more and more I realized I was feeding into the mega-empire that is Microsoft. And I was also noticing that as the years progressed the OS I was using was getting bigger and bigger not only in the aesthetic of it’s design, but in the size of the space it was taking up on my hard drive.

Not just the OS itself, but some of the programs were growing as well. And let’s not talk about installing issues with Windows if you buy a new machine with an older OS or no Restore CD available by the OEM.

Enter the Penguin!

I’ve played with Linux here and there through terminal mode for work and I have installed older versions of Mandrake and even the early inceptions of Ubuntu. But I always turned back to Windows for my day to day computer habits.

I took the plunge and installed Ubuntu on my laptop. And having some knowledge about the OS helped a little. But all in all my experience was rather well and now over 45 days later I am still running under a Linux system and getting the hang on what works and what doesn’t in some areas. However I have a bad habit of pushing things till they break almost and a reinstall seems to be my only cure even if there is a way to fix what isn’t working right.

My experiment mostly was to try out Ubuntu and it’s KDE flavor (Kubuntu) and I am on the fence with both really. Both are really good GUI’s for what was originally a command line only OS and still uses command line stuff. But all in all I am able to have programs to do what I do computer-wise with all open source products. And I still have a ton of disk space to play with compared to what I had left with all the programs that were “commercial” in nature.

I’ve documented my journey at VooDooStevie’s Misadventures In Linux. I blogged up to 46 days so far, but I think I will use this domain as my primary blog of geek related stuff including Linux How-To’s and such.

In the end I am still using Linux and will try not to sway back to the Window necessary, but as for now I don’t see that happening for quite some time.

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