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’ve only installed Red Had, Fedore Core, Debian and Mandrake on desk tops. Never had any problems with the installation itslelf except for Debian where the X server never worked reducing me to midnight commander and emacs, but they say that’s the most of the fun of Linux is, that you can forego the GUI. Anyways, I found Mandrake to be the easiest to install and the most stable on the boxes I used it on. I installed it twice, two different versions, both times on a separate partition alongside Windows. Truth be told I was never able to get it to connect to the internet, not that I tried too hard though, the connection in Windows working just fine. What all of this goes to show is that there’s got to be a huge amount of difference between different Linux distros.
