My stint with Linux (RedHat) began almost 14 yrs ago in a class lab. The installation was totally harrowing and in the end i think the distro we got gave us some UI but main things are doing in terminal.
Sometime last yr tot to give Ubuntu a shot so installed into VirtualBox and try. Looks ok. Reason why i was looking @ Linux was becos my new desktop came with Vista and well u know the rest.
This yr had to take a course in my degree on OpenSource and again Linux came into the picture. However this time round i decided to install Ubuntu into a secondary harddisk and boy ive never installed any OS so smoothly before.
(side note: i literally plugged in my printer and voila, Ubuntu detected it correctly and im off and running, no need to pop cd for installation)
Currently exploring how to tweak the installation, thats how i learn, basically i spend like 3 hrs every night playing ard with it and I AM IMPRESSED. The way things are done in Linux.
Im still a noob @ this though. Hence im prepared to crash the install and start over, till now have not come to tt... maybe when i start to tweak some special conf files or play ard w the Kernels.
Im sticking w Linux for now to run my home pc, the Vista harddisk is still ard though, for my siblings, but eventually will migrate them over.
Sometime last yr tot to give Ubuntu a shot so installed into VirtualBox and try. Looks ok. Reason why i was looking @ Linux was becos my new desktop came with Vista and well u know the rest.
This yr had to take a course in my degree on OpenSource and again Linux came into the picture. However this time round i decided to install Ubuntu into a secondary harddisk and boy ive never installed any OS so smoothly before.
(side note: i literally plugged in my printer and voila, Ubuntu detected it correctly and im off and running, no need to pop cd for installation)
Currently exploring how to tweak the installation, thats how i learn, basically i spend like 3 hrs every night playing ard with it and I AM IMPRESSED. The way things are done in Linux.
Im still a noob @ this though. Hence im prepared to crash the install and start over, till now have not come to tt... maybe when i start to tweak some special conf files or play ard w the Kernels.
Im sticking w Linux for now to run my home pc, the Vista harddisk is still ard though, for my siblings, but eventually will migrate them over.