After getting the laptop squared away with Xandros, I decided to start experimenting with my desktop. Remember earlier in the month I was considering jumping to the MacOS, because I was tired of doing the Windows song and dance. Linux has a couple of things going for it:
- It's free
- Excellent support
- Free software
- Easy to install (depending on distro)
I spent most Saturday and most of Sunday finding and installing various distributions of Linux. I tired Vida, Unbuntu, Xandros and finally settled on SUSE 9.2. If there's any advantage to Windows, it's compatibility with a majority of the hardware out there. Linux's compatibility is nothing to sneeze at, but it's nowhere near Windows.
I couldn't get sound working on VidaLinux, Unbuntu would hang every other reboot at the hot-plug module. Xandros would hang loading modules, which is weird since it was so effortless on my laptop. I had just setup SUSE 9.1 Saturday night when I got the urge to upgrade or rather wipe it out and install SUSE 9.2. The upgrade failed, for some reason my keyboard got screwed up during the install.
I'm now happily dual booting WinXP Pro SP2 with SUSE 9.2 and couldn't be happier. I'm going to give it a trial run this week by doing all of my homework assignments on it with Open Office 1.1 to see if I can get any real work done on Linux. It shouldn't be any problem since I have full access to Windows partitions under SUSE.
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