or ‘How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love (well, at least not hate) XP’
Monday 12 June 2006
by Carl Bateman
I hate M$, really hate it, hate it with a passion. I would dearly love to use Linux for many reasons, because it’s Open Source, to play with all those lovely toys I’ve read so much about (programming tools, OpenGL, etc.), just to try it out to see what all the fuss is about, to bask in the Nirvana that is Linux, because it’s not M$.
From time to time I try to install Linux. Over the last three or four years I’ve made about ten attempts on two different desktop (...)
I understand your pain. I have trashed my system in the early days installing Linux, but ever since I found Gentoo I have never looked back. Go to www.gentoo.org and download their install CD. If you follow the Gentoo handbook to the letter, you will get Linux installed.
Gentoo is a source based distro, meaning you have to compile everything yourself, but it makes it fast and light. It has the best software updating mechanism too in the emerge/portage system and http://forums.gentoo.org will solve any problems you have.
