It was a challenge first. I was bored with Windows, wary of OS X and bored of doing nothing during one summer.
That pretty much sums it up…or at least…that begins it…
Because I had a athlon 64 bit processor on my old laptop I mistakenly thought it would be intelligent to download the 64 bit version of Ubuntu (my first linux distro). Things didn’t go well, but I was persistent. After that I tried SuSE and hated it. At that point I had my priorities mixed up: I wanted my computer to look nicer, and don’t get me wrong, this is nice, but I hadn’t really experimented with the applications that I could choose from in linux. While I was still trying to figure out SuSE, Compiz first came out.
As you might be able to imagine, it seemed like the coolest thing ever. At that point, compiz was only available on SuSE so I tried and tried and eventually got it working–my first real success in linux. I was impressed with how fast it was, the notion that I probably wouldn’t get viruses, and the idea of opensource.
In any case, almost two years later I am still using linux except I am using the Arch Linux distribution because I find it to be the OS that best represents what Linux is all about: Freedom.
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