I have been an advid Windows user since the introduction to Windows 3.11, but seemed to enjoy DOS alot more. There was not a whole lot of in school learning for computers at the time, probably due to the fact that it was still a new technology to consumers and the teachers did not know much about them either. However, it was enough to catch my attention and I started learning on my own going through a Tandy 2000 and several 386/486 computers. I spent some time with Jonathan who was my service provider for the internet and used to help him develop web sites. I did not like the software side of the technology too much, and enjoyed the hardware and networking part more. As time moved forward through windows 95 up to Windows XP, testing all the operating systems before they hit the shelves, I found myself devling deeper into the technology. On my own, I learned a lot for which educated people payed thousands of dollars for.
Throughout the same years and on some free time, I grew interested in different types of operating systems. Why? well, I suppose it was because I was bored of the typical MS Operating systems and wanted to know if there were any comparisons out there. I learned of Unix, which I did not get to try, but a fork of it called Linux, which was not even targeted at consumers, so compared to Microsoft Windows, it wasn’t even close to being ready for the market if it ever decided to go that route. I also tried a dying OS, which is dead now, called BeOS, which at that time of trail, seemed to me to be almost as good as using Windows, of course, using different technology’s and different code. Come to think of it, I miss using BeOS.
However after trying many flavors of linux and trying BeOS, I always found myself back in a Windows system. The other operating systems were just not ready for me. Perhaps I was not ready for them?
Since 1994 through about 2006, I’ve always been a fan of Windows, but for some reason always became bored of it because of my curiousity and ever growing need for knowledge. Because of this, I always switched back and forth between Linux and Windows. The primary reason for always moving back to Windows, was because I felt Linux was just to complex and because of using Windows for so many years, though of linux as not being a superior operating system. It had a horrible complex installation routine which would not install most of the time. It’s hardware support and detection was pretty much non-existant and when it was installed, it was mostly a text based operating system and the x-window system, which was graphical was so ugly and unusable, it made it’s console look like the pretty’s of Windows.
It was so different from Windows, that I got lost. I just could not get around to actually knowing what I needed to know to make Linux work. I was so used to seeing pretty displays, graphics, and icons that I could just click to launch. That’s why I moved back to windows. Linux just did not make the cut and there was not a distro (distribution), that stayed on my partition longer than a few days.
That was until this year when I came across a distrubution called Ubuntu.
