Saying "Good-bye" to Windows

[corfy]

For the first time in three and a half years, I only have one operating system on my home computer.

However, the one I have left isn't Windows.

I have completely removed Windows from my home desktop computer. It was very liberating.

Granted, I haven't used much of Windows over the last two years. But still, it was there.

I ended up giving my copy of Windows XP to a friend of mine who desperately needed a newer computer, but didn't have much money. So I built her a computer using some parts I had sitting around and purchasing the few parts that I didn't have. She isn't very computer literate, so I couldn't talk her into Linux. So, after talking it over with my wife, I gave her our copy of XP. Of course, to do that legally, I have to remove it from my computer. Which I have.

Granted, I'm still stuck with Windows at work (I am the IT guy for our office, after all, and it is a Windows environment).

So I am moving forward with Ubuntu, and maybe a Linux distro or two to be named later.

[j7wild]

No Windows? No Religion?

[corfy]

More like....

No viruses
No spyware built into the OS
No limitations on what I can do with the software
No expensive software upgrades
No software updates forcing me to stop what I'm doing and restart the computer
No checking in to make sure I have a legal copy of the software
No blue screens of death

[odj_310388]

Congrats! Wish I had the balls to try an operating system that wasn't mainstream.

[jmcc]

You can try at least a LiveCD or a LiveDVD version...