Back to Linux

For the past 2 years or so, I was using mostly windows for my desktop applications. In the meanwhile I had tried to switch to Linux a couple of times, and it never worked fully. Reason, I was trying to roll out a custom version for my use. Lost interest in half way. Last one i tried a couple of weeks ago was Gentoo. It was coming up nicely until my experiments with emerge finally fucked the system over to a totally unusable state. All those hours of downloading and building went out of the window by a stupid decision I made about a conflicting package.


Yesterday, I decided I need to get away from the dreaded windows platform because its been a really long while I have worked with Linux on my desktop. I am losing that experimental nature slowly. So, a switch might help me catch up on what was left out. So, I got Ubuntu Linux and installed it, So far I am feeling good about it, everything is working the way I want. All required software are there etc. Had a little trouble with flash player because I am using a 64bit system and adobe doesn't have a 64bit flash player yet. But, Ubuntu took care of it nicely, so far, I am enjoying Synaptic, the package manager. I was using Google docs for my basic word processing, spreadsheets, so no issues about it. Was using pidgin in windows, so my IM sessions are fine too. Almost all of the required software are there. As per what I am seeing now, Linux is ready for desktop use.

Now, it is just a wait and see game for me :)