I’ve been running Linux for a few days now. After weeks of clamping it down, especially looking for suitable drivers for my wireless card, it’s now finally working like a dream.

I’m definitely not going to miss Windows.

Admittedly though, it wasn’t easy, not especially when I’ve chosen to use Slackware. You need to be comfortable with command line.

In any case, it’s well rewarded. The satisfaction of running an advanced computing system on older hardware (a 1.1GHz AMD Thunderbird) is overwhelming. It’s time to break the cycle of dumping a computer every 3 years just because it cannot run the latest Microsoft Office anymore. It’s such a big waste.

I remember asking a friend who recently got an Apple Powerbook, “Do you miss any windows applications?”

“No. I don’t. I mean, what else do you need besides a good web browser, email and word processing?” He said.

Very true. And my Linux box can do all these very well.