Windows 7 is on my laptop again. One year of Linux — that was a very long time. I can say I have successfully tested it, and that I can have an unbiased viewpoint of how it met or did not meet my needs.
I thought I’d share a few thoughts. I felt as if I was abandoning Linux when I started to create an NTFS partition. The little penguin in the back of my mind was attempting to scream in pain, like I was pushing a very dull knife into its throat bringing it to a slow and painful death. (You see, if you picture that in your mind, it is quite sad.) Then I realized something: I wasn’t abandoning Linux, I have two servers running Linux in my home, plus others elsewhere. Linux on my desktop just wasn’t doing all that I wanted it to do.
In fact, Linux did everything I needed it to do. Word processing, email, calendar, Internet, music; these are the things that Linux was exceptionally proficient at. It did not, however, play the three games that I occasionally play very well (The Sims 3, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, and it did not play The Sims 2 at all). It had problems with my MP3 player which I had just “dealt with” by being passive aggressive about the situation (you know: hinting to my computer that I would kill its’ motherboard in the middle of the night, or start offing its’ child processes when they went to sleep). Continue reading
