Goodbye to you
Gordon here.
Last night I had the sad duty of installing Windows to my computer again. For the past 3 months I have been running Ubuntu (Feisty Fawn I believe) which is a flavor of Linux. For those of you not in the know, Linux is a free offshoot of the old Unix operating system that is still the standard for most servers.
I was really sad to have to replace the OS because I had actually become very accustomed to Ubuntu. I have installed at least 6 different versions of Linux on different systems over the years and Ubuntu was the first one that really stuck. They made it very easy for someone used to Windows to make the migration to Linux. The only problem I had with my latest foray into Linux again was the video drivers. Luckily though, someone with a lot more free time and smarts than I have created a script that detects and automatically downloads and installs your drivers for you. Once I figured that out I never really looked back. From what I read everywhere video drivers are a big problem with Linux right now because the vendors aren't really releasing useable ones and get upset when other people try to write their own files.
The reason for the switch was because I am starting school again in 2 weeks and the the only class I signed up for was C++. C++ can be used in Linux but I know for a fact that the class will be taught using Visual Studio, which is Windows only.
Installing Windows is pretty easy for me it's just all the extra crap that you have to install with it that gets overwhelming. Whenever I wanted any software on Ubuntu all I had to do was open a program that listed all the available software and click what I wanted. Now I have to search for each software package, download it, execute it and then configure it. Also with Linux you don't really need anti-virus or spyware programs because there just aren't enough of them floating around and they would have to be very good programs to do any damage anyways due to the more secure nature of Linux. So the entire installation took about four hours including loading Visual Studio. Blehh.
So until next summer, I have to say goodbye Linux. We shall meet again.
Last night I had the sad duty of installing Windows to my computer again. For the past 3 months I have been running Ubuntu (Feisty Fawn I believe) which is a flavor of Linux. For those of you not in the know, Linux is a free offshoot of the old Unix operating system that is still the standard for most servers.
I was really sad to have to replace the OS because I had actually become very accustomed to Ubuntu. I have installed at least 6 different versions of Linux on different systems over the years and Ubuntu was the first one that really stuck. They made it very easy for someone used to Windows to make the migration to Linux. The only problem I had with my latest foray into Linux again was the video drivers. Luckily though, someone with a lot more free time and smarts than I have created a script that detects and automatically downloads and installs your drivers for you. Once I figured that out I never really looked back. From what I read everywhere video drivers are a big problem with Linux right now because the vendors aren't really releasing useable ones and get upset when other people try to write their own files.
The reason for the switch was because I am starting school again in 2 weeks and the the only class I signed up for was C++. C++ can be used in Linux but I know for a fact that the class will be taught using Visual Studio, which is Windows only.
Installing Windows is pretty easy for me it's just all the extra crap that you have to install with it that gets overwhelming. Whenever I wanted any software on Ubuntu all I had to do was open a program that listed all the available software and click what I wanted. Now I have to search for each software package, download it, execute it and then configure it. Also with Linux you don't really need anti-virus or spyware programs because there just aren't enough of them floating around and they would have to be very good programs to do any damage anyways due to the more secure nature of Linux. So the entire installation took about four hours including loading Visual Studio. Blehh.
So until next summer, I have to say goodbye Linux. We shall meet again.
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