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How do I feel now that I’ve installed Ubuntu 11.04 as the primary OS on my Dell? I feel lucky that I’m comfortable with terminal commands. That’s probably a negative for most people (e.g. “normal users”) but since I’m a tinkerer I don’t mind getting my hands…err…fingers dirty with a little text entry.
A definite plus (how appropriate for G+): rebooting it on my Pentium 4-era PC is remarkably fast. It was back at the login screen so quickly that I wasn’t sure it rebooted. Another positive feature is the all-encompassing update system. It’s no lie that Linux had an “app store” on the desktop long before Apple came up with the idea. It’s interesting to note here that while I’ve played with Linux (I used to be a fan of Mandrake, or is it Mandriva?) as a secondary OS (via Wubi) or in a virtual machine, I’ve never had it installed as the only OS on any of my computers. So this, you might say, is a new grand experiment for me. Will I stick with it or will I cave and put something else on it? It’s even more interesting to note at this juncture that the last time I installed an alternative primary OS on my Dell, it was OS X 10.4 Tiger. Sure, it required some hacking, but it also convinced me to convert to Macs. Prior to that I was a staunch Windows advocate and Microsoft fanboy. Will my 2011 foray into Linux portend a full-time switch in 2012? Doubtful, surely, but one never knows.|
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