Well, so it’s been at least a month after I’ve installed Ubuntu and began working with it to do my work, and unfortunately I must admit that whatever I am doing in Ubuntu now, I can do it as well in Windows, and perhaps the converse is true (with the exception of a few codecs that I have not installed and some inconveniences). So I haven’t really reached the point where I have experienced the power of Linux.
Some issues: I am still rather unfamiliar with the command line, and reading man pages are rather intimidating as well. Most of the time I don’t know what’s going on and skim past paragraphs that are hopefully unimportant in my situation. Some examples of basic usage have been rather helpful.
I do miss the hand-holding that MS Windows takes their users through; although it does allow users to slack off and not get to know their computer better. However I guess I’m still quite far from getting to know my computer better, so perhaps that argument doesn’t really stand.
Also, having to run fsck after an unclean shutdown can be a really sobering experience.
But, overall, using Ubuntu is fun. And makes me feel geeky. Heh.
Anyway, just to clarify what I do on my laptop: I do most of my work in OpenOffice, I surf the net, and I chat on Gaim. Pretty mundane things, really, where Linux is concerned.
