I’ve been trying to sell my old PC for a while, but to no avail – the last time I tried on Craigslist I was met by an army of scammers, so since then I’ve kind of kept it all boxed up and useless in the corner.
As of late, though, I’ve been reading a lot about Linux through some of the tech blogs I visit, and so I figured that now would be as good of a time as any to give it a shot – if nothing else than just to get rid of Windows once and for all and make the world a better place in the process.
After downloading and burning the Ubuntu 8.10 .iso off of the Ubuntu website, all it took was half an hour to erase the Windows partition and replace it with the Linux OS, and after fiddling around with it for about a day I was fascinated by how clean and versatile it was, contrary to my preassumptions. » Read the rest of this entry «