Why I Use Linux: Lofton’s Story
Asia is like this: totally Windows, totally pirated. Every Chinese university uses a pirated, ghosted copy of Windows and MS Office. Two years later I went to Thailand. It was, if anything, worse.
It was my first year in Thailand when I bought a copy of Red Hat Linux 4. It was a mess. I just didn’t have the time to devote to it. The second or third year, right after it came out in fact I got a DVD of Fedora core 4. It was cool, but still I had a family trying to use this and they were used to pirated Windows based stuff. Still, I was spending 4-6 hours a week keeping the laptop and an old iMac running and was getting sick of it.
I downloaded Core 5 when it came out and dual-booted for a few months before I switched entirely. In the last few years I have switched the entire family (now a total of 5 computers) over to various Linux versions, mostly Debian based, while I still use Fedora at work and Ubuntu at home.
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