Goodbye Windows, Hello Linux
Well it’s been a year since I gave up Windows for a life of Linux and was I wise to embark on such a voyage?
Like some of you out there I had dabbled on and off with Linux over the years, installing a distro (if I got that far) and briefly using it for a few days before reformatting the hard drive and continuing in the Windows world. Just over a year ago I decided that I had had quite enough of the job I was in as a systems engineer, working day in and day out with Microsoft systems and all that went with it for several years. April 1st 2006 (no joke either) I was free from my job and decided I should free myself from, or at least investigate a world without Windows.
When I dabbled with Linux in the past I usually went for Red Hat, Red Hat 6.2 was my first distro but decided against them this time due to their adoption of a subscription model which I, and others, saw as a move against the “free and open” spirit of Linux. In my opinion a free OS is not free if you have to pay for updates!
Before I decided to do away with Windows I had investigated FreeBSD. I always installed this when I wanted to play about with a web or mail server. FreeBSD is fairly easy to install and has ports and packages for software installation. Quite secure and fast due to a lack of a GUI but if I got into problems with installation and/or configuration of software it tended to cause me more than a few headaches. I like FreeBSD, but for a desktop it could be a lot of work - which I don’t want to be honest. Having said this I do want a BSD desktop one day
So what did I decide on?
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