0 Moving! Windows to Linux!

   

    Hello, guys whoever read this post.
So, it's been a long time since i posted my last post. My pass was lost and i made a new email. But, today i'm successfully recover my pass, and at very beginning of 2015, i decide to back writing random blog stuffs.

    I'll tell you my experience.
I've been using windows since 2001, it was the first time i use computer (3 years old). The first OS i use was windows 2000. Last year, i feel my windows 7 computer going slow, i game most on it actually. I did "typical" ways to speed up windows, and it still super slow to boot. Hmm, ok, at that time i think it's the time to reinstall my windows 7.
   What a bad luck, i lost my win7 installation DVD! And yeah, i stuck with that slow system for a few days. Then, i'm browsing around, and find an article on the internet talk about Linux. Ah, that time i was not interested, why? simply because it look sucks : there's a "command prompt" things in the screenshots shown there, also there's something called "xfce" which is super bad-looking desktop in my opinion.
   OK, i ignored that article for a while. But... like a half hour later, my damn windows 7 hangs. And it forced my to shut it down and reboot, losing my school homework left unsaved. My feeling was angry, sad, etc etc! I don't expect a decent PC with intel sb i5 and 8gigs of ram will got HANG opening a single MS word! Of course i blame my windows 7!
    After that hang moment, i open back article i read, and see some linux version called "distro". I decided to downloads and install it to my computer, the first distro i download was Ubuntu 10.04 (which is not the latest version at that time). After got all installed, i bit surprised, it was easy to install (and of course it's blazing fast).
     Some days i get used to my Ubuntu system, i learned terminal - command prompt thing i thought it's sucks , actually terminal is cool! it's linux all-in-one tool that easy to use when you get used to it. Of course you need to learn some basics first before feel it's COOL! Oh well, who in the earth Windows typical user would use such command line thing like that, they'll stuck in GUI (which is less customisable) seriously you'll feel you're awesome learning and using it at the first time, it just feel like you're a superuser.
     Now, it's been like a year i'm using linux instead of windows as OS on my secondary PC. I use mac for school by the way, if my ssd space allows me to bootcamp, i also want to install linux on my mac, because i'm way more satisfacted using linux than mac os. Linux i've been use were Ubuntu series (Xubuntu, Lubuntu, Ubuntu, Kubuntu), Linux Mint, Puppy Linux, other linuxes which i dont remember their name.
    Things those i like from linux : they're fast, super secure (as i read there're only 40s of viruses attacking Ubuntu), highly customisable, and stable! I don't need to talk about this too long, this is just awesome, you should try it yourself to see linux's awesomeness!
    One only thing i don't like about linux is the games, i am a mild gamer, i games on my windows, but on linux you just can't play games you game on windows - which is sucks. In the first days i use linux, i open my battlefield 2 .exe program, and undoubtedly it won't open normally, instead it ask me to choose program to open it. Of course, you can't run windows program in linux - for those who don't know yet. Luckily, still it support steam and there're a lot of linux gaming community out there. But, for now, i still rely on windows in case of gaming. I just hope, in next years, more popular linux-compatible games will come to this awesome OS.

For those who find windows is slow, sucks, heavy-virus-ed, etc i recommend you to try Linux! It's free.
Try Ubuntu! http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop
ZorinOS : for beginners! http://zorin-os.com/free.html
Linux Mint! http://www.linuxmint.com/download.php