You have gotten your computer all set up with Linux, you have worked all day playing (and possibly breaking) different parts of it, and now you just want to relax and watch a movie on your newly rejuvenated computer. You pop in the dvd, your media player of choice (or just the default one) pops [...]

Well, welcome back to the site everyone, I am a new writer here, and I hope to help you all in your transition to a better (in my humble opinion) operating system.

From browsing the site I found that we get a lot of comments here that say things like “I am not switching to Linux because then I can’t play my games!” and “Ubuntu sucks because I can’t play games!”. Well, here is the thing… you can. There are tonnes and tonnes of games out there for you to try and play. There are even sites and programs dedicated to getting your windows games up and running. These comments actually puzzle me somewhat, because if you do not want to change to Ubuntu (or some version of Linux) then, are you still using XP (or Windows 98) for the same reason?

Welcome to part one of my journey to converting from Windows to Linux. I am hoping that this will help you do it to and give you an insight into how the Linux world can help:
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I was going to be turning 18 and as a present my parents were going to buy me a [...]

Why do people convert to Linux and why do people contradict their choice, I will investigate this in this post and bring to your attention 15 points. 10 for and 5 against converting to Linux.
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A bit of background before I start so you know where I am coming from. As a user of Windows [...]

Converting to Linux is not a decision that many take lightly, that is why the Live CD has been such a good invention. The Live CD allows you to run the operating system in your system memory from CD without touching you hard drive which means that you can test the operating system without being [...]