I am a student at a United States public high school in Oregon. It has been
four years since I got my first computer when I started high school, which
ran Windows 7. I knew very little about computers (What is a file?). Now I am
a junior (I was held back a grade.) and I know more about computers than 99%
of the students or teachers.
About two years ago, I learned how to use a bootable iso disk image. Ever
since then I have been in constant indecision about which operating system is
the best. I am not sure why I have been sticking with Trisquel, as it is not
really my favourite. My idea of the best OS is whichever one is the most
usable. Usability includes being able to install it as many times as I want,
which rules out most proprietary systems. Another thing is, I want both a
good GUI and CLI. The only OSs which seem to have both are certain GNU/Linux
distros, such as Trisquel. I will probably not be sticking with Trisquel for
much longer since I am finding that KDE is probably the best desktop for me.
I am the only person I know of in my school who knows anything about the FSF.
Not even the IT department knows as much about it as I do. All of the school
district computers run Windows 7, except for the servers which run Windows
Server 2008 R2. I asked the IT department if they would consider switching
OSs sometime in the future and they said that they considered giving people a
choice between Windows 7, OS X, and some GNU/Linux distro at boot so the
department could achieve their mission of providing a "homogeneous
environment". However, in the past year there have been school budget cuts,
and the IT department has lost its two most talented members. The
department's current plans for the future are much less amazing.
