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in which i convince you to try linux. seriously.

There's just not a whole lot of blogging this week from me; I've been working like crazy on deadlines, and I've been a lot more interested in hanging out with my family in the evenings than doing anything computer-related.

It's actually pretty nice, and if you have to means to hang out with your family instead of the Internets, I highly recommend it.

But based on the comments to yesterday's post, there's a lot of curiosity about Linux, and until I have time to write the obligatory "Linux is a cool alternative OS that does lots of great stuff and is so easy to make go, a Pakled could do it" post, some of you may be interested in trying out a Live CD distribution, just to see if Linux could detect and support your hardware and peripherals without risking any modifications to your hard drive at all, you can run an entire Linux operating system, filled with all sorts of software (office stuff, Internets stuff, audio stuff, and a few games that, admittedly, aren't much better than minesweeper) off a Live CD. I recommend Knoppix or Ubuntu. You can get either one from those links, and WWdN reader Craig Steffen was kind enough to detail painfully simple instructions on getting Linux up and running with a Live CD yesterday.

If you give it a try, I'd be really interested in your experiences. Let's see if it really is as easy and fun for other people as it is for me, mmmkay?

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