Making a switch.

For as long as I've been involved with computers and technology in general...the great debate has always come up. Mac vs. PC.....with Linux standing in the background.

And honestly...I've been on both sides of the fence. My first personal computer was a Mac. An iMac DV Special Edition. Top of the heap (as far as iMacs go) at the time. It ran and it ran without a hickup. I loved my Mac. Then OSX came out. I installed it on my mac....then soon....my mac started getting hickups and problems it never had before. Not even mentioning that NONE of my software worked on OSX....Booooooo....

So I formatted it and went back to OS9. It wouldn't reinstall properly. So I couldn't get it back to what it was before I put OSX on it. So after a month of struggling I decided to sell it. Hard decision for me at the time...it was my only computer. But thankfully...someone bought it and I put that money into building a PC. Again...top of the line at its birth. Spent about $1,000 or so on it, read every article I could about pc building to make sure I did it all right and to tweak the operating system.

And I've been satisfied. Not happy....but satisfied. It runs.....it runs most of the time and it runs pretty well. But over the past few years and few upgrades (video & ram), and reformats....I've gotten tired of things just not wanting to work anymore. I like doing graphic design on my PC....and I like just browsing and playing the occasional emulator.
But sometimes it just doesn't wanna work. And I'm tired of fighting with my computer. and I refuse to move to Windows Vista

So I've started looking at Linux. Ubuntu to be more specific. I've heard nothing but good things about it. The only downside I've seen right now is that there is no directX10 support. yet.

Not sure about it yet...and I'll probably install it on my mame arcade machine on a partition and see how it runs before I take the plunge. The biggest things I'll miss I think are using photoshop and all the other graphic programs I've grown  up using...and I can't game on it. But maybe I could dualboot it or something. We'll see.

- Gatsu OUT!