Check it out you Windows users. Linux made easy....er

Jeremy really has been busy with stuff. And by that I mean playing Gears of War for hours on end. I do not have this luxury since I have to split my time between Call of Duty and Gears of War. All well.

But I am here to talk about something I care about almost more than video games just to fill the void in posts with something at least. That something is the operating system that has the privilege of gracing my computer. I even wrote an English persuasive essay about why people should stop using Windows and got 90% on it. I am renounced that Microsoft pile of crap (Ironic since I prefer their console to anything else) and started looking into Linux a year ago. I learned a lot but still went back to Windows in the end.

Soon after I burned about 20 Linux CD's because I had the perfect oppertunity to learn even more since my brothers computer wasn't really suited for Windows. I eventually put Windows back on reluctantly but it broke soon after that. Meanwhie I got to test quite a few distributions and learn even more about Linux and after about 3 months of OS swapping I was a Linux intermediate and stuck to Linux and stayed for the cool 3D effects. (IF you haven't seen them look on Youtube for XGL, Compiz, Beryl). I chose Ubuntu in the end but usually was using Windows because of a World of Warcraft I am not too proud of. Though I am proud to say that even though I do have Windows installed on a very small partition of my laptop I haven't used it at all for three months.

I have tried to convert a few people to my side of things but gave up. Jeremy once tried it but as any Linux enthusiast will know, ATI graphics cards do not play well usually with Linux. Reason being that ther driver blows. But today I stumbled upon little something at DistroWatch and it is a fork of Ubuntu that eliminates the process of installing codecs and such manually and just gives it to you when installing. It was never very hard to install them, there are many automatic utilities but since Ubuntu is free it only ships with non-proprietary software. Other than that it is the same from what I have read. Only some very minor stuff that you would change anyway like the crazy brown theme.

Anyway, the point is that this seems like the easiest way to use Linux. It doesn't seem to install proprietary video drivers but it certainly give you more than a fresh Windows install does. For free and virus free. I personally swear by Ubuntu, I wouldn't use anything else. The only thing you need to get in your mind before trying Linux or anything different for that matter is that it will be just that - different. Not necessarily worse, just different. And for anyone wanting to see what life would be like without Windows I would certainly recommend Mint Linux.

There, maybe that will fill in the hole, I nice long topic that is completely off topic from usual. Unlikely but its been a while since Jeremy made a post.

PLEASE NOTE: I haven't installed it, I am just going on the pretense that Mint Linux is virtually identical to Ubuntu aside from the pre-installed software, window manager theme and one application swap.