Miscellaneous > The Lounge

Why did you convert?

(1/4) > >>

rtgwbmsr:
An interesting question. Ok, so the wording of the title is bad. It's more like "What were the circumstances of your conversion?". And no replies like XP sux or Linux rules.

Mine:
I was actually beta testing Windows XP (Yes, I've come that far in only a few months). I downloaded Beta 2 (with Luna), and installed it. At first sight of the sesame street-esque icons I said "Shit. You gotta be kidding me. This is the future of Windows?". So I decided to punch in fuckmicrosoft.com, as a joke.

I learned a lot from the site. I saw just how bad Microsoft was, and more importantly, why (Nobody ever addresses that. Just "Windows Sux"). And I also saw how many Linuxes there are.

OK, so now I had to escape the ever-worsening XP. After installing Quake III and seeing the performance, I was fed up. I went and downloaded Red Hat, which I had actually used before that time. It actually ran smoothly. Everything: Konquerer, Quake, everything. I actually started trying others too. Mac OS X and Mandrake are my current 2 OSes (I plan to be fully Windows free by the end of August).

So, everyone, tell me why/how etc. you converted. And someone...post this on the front page. I put a lot of work into it! Lol.

-Dustin

CaptainCool:
I havent completly gotten rid of windows yet i got a duel boot with 2k.
I will go linux only one of these days, probably when 2k becomes obsolete.
The reason why is because i'm just getting tired of all this m$ crap with the activation and shit.
It prob gonna get 10 times worse once m$ releases it's Palladium which is why ill never upgrade to another m$ windows ever again.

choasmaster:
hahaha, i actally learned about linux when i was over a mac hackers house, he was phucking with peoples websites at the time, and i asked what actally hosts the sites. he said either linux/unix. that stuck for a while. then in my windows mistaken edition days. i was in this game of who could get the most megs of warez. i noticed on redhats site that they charge 200 for the two discs, so i downloaded them and was about to make a bullshit claim that i just gotten 1.2 gigs of warez/*warez kiddies can be dumb, than god for enlightenment*/ then i though what the hell, ill install it on my second harddrive. at first i was in awe that something other windows would run on my system. the first few months were hard, but thanks to the solarise sysadmin that lives next to me/*hes moving though*/ i learned some early n00b commands like
ls
cp
mv
mount
startx

and a whole bunch of other, from him i also learned that the only thing requirering a reboot on unix is a kernel change. then i started to realize that windows sucked but i keep it cuase at the time cause i was a n00b. and the propetary usb phonline networking that my dad insisted on using. after small period of time i only found myself booting into windows to download something. i then suggested to my dad to use the much faster ethernet network. which we had used a version/*10base2*/ in our win95 days. he asked me why, and i told him that there were no drivers for network type under linux, then he asked me what linux was and i had too explain what linux was. when i told him that there were no drivers for linux for the usb phoneline thing, he immediantly thought that linux sucked. i had to buy all the networking equipment i wanted to use. so  i did. he also asked if linux would support connecting to the microsoft box, at this point i had learned alittle on tcp/ip and how crossplatform it was, so i took a risk and said, eaisly. when all my equipment arrived, we set it all up and it worked great. after learning more about stuff like WineX and Wine and other linux games, i took the big step and installed linux using both drives, its been great since i did that and i only think of windows when some games are realised mac and windows only. owell

cloudstrife:
In 9th grade, i went to Veritas Software for career day.  I met the guy that i would be following around for the day, and then i noticed the computers under his desk.

One was running win2k.  That computer was for email.  Then i saw the other one, it said "sun" on it.  i had never seen a sun machine b4.  The programmer booted it up, and i was like "whoa!"  it wasn't windows!  then he started showing me all the cool shit i could do.  that night i went home and looked at all my software cds.  at the bottom of the pile was an old copy of redhat 5.2 (my dad bought it, then decided it was too different), which i then installed.  i never went back.  i now run freebsd and slackware.

Master of Reality:
I originally saw my brother using Linux and he explained what the hell it was. It was awesome.. I didnt have a computer then. Soon I forgot about Linux when i got my new computer with windows3.11. THen a little while later (1995) I got win95 installed and was amused by it for a while. THen i got win98 and began to get dissapointed. Then I got a new computer and then used win98 for awhile longer. Then i remembered Linux and tried putting Linux Mandrake 7.1(?) and it didnt work out too well. It didnt like my video and pissed me off of it. Then awhile later I tried linux again (same version) and it worked. I kept it for a while then went back to windows for no apparent reason.

Eventually I got really pissed off at having windows crashing every couple of seconds. Then i got cable and had to run a router. Needless to say; windows98 doesnt run a router very good. I kept the windows router while i Put Linux Mandrake  (newly dled), and said fuck this is too easy I want redhat!.
I got redhat and running NMAP i noticed that it would crash the win98 router on the slowest setting.
Thats when I switched to RedHat 7.2 on my server.

I am now running RH7.3 on my server. RedHat7.2 on my main comp along side a small win98 used only for Half-Life.

Navigation

[0] Message Index

[#] Next page