Linux Only, Two Months Later
Since I built my new PC roughly two months ago, I have been running Linux (Ubuntu 8.04 64 bit) as my primary operating system, and I have not looked back.
While in the past I have always had machines running Linux (or FreeBSD) at home, my primary PC had always been a Windows PC. But when I made the switch to a true 64-bit environment, Linux made perfect sense. My old PC was running Windows XP 32 bit, in order to take advantage of the 8 GB memory installed in my new machine, I had to move to a 64 bit OS. So my choices were either to buy a copy of Windows XP 64 bit (Vista? No thanks.) or use the freely available 64 bit Linux. And the choice was quite easy to make.
So, I decided to go with the most popular distro - Ubuntu. In fact I could have easily chosen openSUSE, or even FreeBSD (which is based on BSD UNIX) since my previous experience with them were quite positive as well. At first I did have some question whether or not I would be able to do the majority of my work on Linux, without having to constantly turning to a Windows PC. As it turned out, those worries were totally unnecessary.
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