A summary of my Linux experiment
About a week ago I decided to try Linux again. I thought enough time had passed since my earlier trials that things might have matured enough for me to give it another shot. I attempted to be as subjective as possible. I wanted to view this not as a move away from OS X, but as a move towards Linux.
I expected hurdles would line my way. My machine isn’t cutting edge. My machine is a PPC, which would limit my choices. I would have to give up some of the creature comforts I’ve come accustomed to. I had all of these hurdles in my head before hand, but I didn’t know how big these hurdles actually were.
I have a few basic requirements for my OS. They aren’t anything extraordinary, but they can cause some extra work for certain distros. My primary requirement for an OS is MP3 support. Plain and simple I want to listen to music. I listen to over 100 songs a day at work, and I expect no less from my home computer. Some distros passed this requirement with flying colors and out-of-the-box would play my music collection. Other distros required me to install MP3 support before listening, and other distros wouldn’t play anything even after I installed their ‘mp3 support library’.
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