> This kind of perks my interest. I am curious as to see how many on this > list who use or have used linux exclusively on the desktop made the plunge > in one fatal swoop, rather than spreading the process out.
Well, when I came to my first semester off my mission, my CS142 class used the linux labs exclusively. This was my first experience with it. I decided that I had better learn linux and so went to an installfest with my compaq laptop. I was there all day getting help in installing Fedora Core (I think it was 2). It never really worked, no wireless, no sound, and bad video. Pretty much didn't work. But I guess I was obstinate, as I tried out knoppix on the laptop to see if somethings could work. Knoppix had sound and video. So, I tried to install Knoppix but that failed. I heard about Gentoo and how it might work so I decided to try that (yeah, I really jumped into the deep end). Gentoo actually allowed me to get everything working and was great, but was irritating my wife (as I was constantly on the laptop :). During this entire time, I discovered that my laptop is known to not work with Linux very nicely. I found websites and mailing lists dedicated to this model. Also, I only used Windows for games. I really immersed myself. I now barely use that laptop as it's screen is physically broken. I have a desktop that I found in the dump (or at least on the way to the dump) and compared to my laptop, it is extremely easy to handle. I run ubuntu on this machine and am very pleased with it. Trevan
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