Linux house

Yeah, so, we are a Linux house. I use www.pclinuxos.com and am quite okay with it. It's very versatile, works right away, you can try before you buy--oh, wait! You don't pay for it. It's Linux, which more times than not means free. There are only a few reasons to keep my old copy of Windows XP-in our house, main reason is Netflix. Yeah, it's unfortunate. I dove into Linux about a year ago, tried a few things to see what I liked. At the time, Ubuntu seemed nice. I stumbled on this distro, PCLinuxOS, and am very pleased. It just simply works. It's familiar, which I like. I'm not savvy in Linux at all. I Google what I need to figure out mostly, but I love the fact that it's free and versatile.

I am able to run Windows XP in the background using virtualbox. After doing so, I can run Windows only things. It's frustrating on this end because I believe things should be coded for more than one system. In the end, it's we who benefit. My thing is, why pay for decent software when you can get free stuff that works as well.

These days, I use variations from Open Office to cloud-based apps such as Google Docs or Zoho. I am a big Google user, actually. I love what they offer and the price in which they offer it. Free is hard to beat, after all, when you're living in the world as we know it today. When it comes to diapers or Windows 7, yeah, I'm opting for booty coverage. I know; I know. Windows 7 is available for almost a year at no cost. I tried it out. I liked it. At the same time, I'm not buying Vista to upgrade. I think that's asinine. I'm just sick of paying outrageous fees for marginal updates (Windows 7 imo is better than marginal, but I'm talking overall grand scheme of things and stuff).

Soon, I'll have a Linux-based gadget, the Nokia N810. I'll write about it as well. So far, so good on the Linux front. My buddy, Micah, introduced me to Linux a long time ago. Much different back then to how things are now. There are distros that most any common user could install or run from a Live CD, which won't change your computer at all unless you hit install. I tried out PCLinuxOS09 on my desktop recently to see how things worked. Well, it seemed to work just fine. And, it still is. Free. No upgrade costs; tons of software available.

Tech is good. God is great. You dig?