I must admit i am growing quite fond of my linux environment. First of all it gives me back a sense of control – i can quickly search, install and uninstall apps and it is now fairly simple to do it. Most of the applications i need to work are free and several times way better than its windows counterparts – with the added bonus that they are smaller and “lighter”.
But can i move to Linux and completely rule out Windows ?
Too early to say. Most of the stuff i use in windows is here already (OpenOffice, mail, Firefox, etc) and the ones that aren’t have similar “linux version” tools – as mentioned – sometimes better.
What about games ? After all a person does not use its computer for work alone, we need some entertainment in our lives.
So far the answer is quite positive – Guild Wars is running in my laptop with itsy bitsy minor problems. In fact the only problem i had installing this game was the dreadful DirectX – a stupid little piece of software that started being used by game developers and is now a standard. But even this was bypassed via Wine and some extra tweaks (mainly running in a D8 version way).
I can even manage my Windows machines (yes, i still have one or two windows machines) using gtk vnc viewer – eventually these will be migrated to Linux also. And with that i can cover all my computing needs with just one simple 5GB sized filesystem (all apps + linux, except Guild Wars and swap) – now isn’t that just dandy ? (i like this expression, hehehe). E ainda … this was about the size of my C:\Windows directory *only* (no apps, no docs, no nothing – just can’t understand how that grows so large over time …).
One (linux) ring to rule them all …
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