About a month ago, I got so sick of Windows that I just couldn’t take it anymore. I was about to buy a new Mac when…
I jumped on the Internet and started reading about Linux again. I had always wanted to try it, and I’d heard most of the desktop installations were FREE! I went to my local electronics store and found a book with two discs featuring several UBUNTU installations. After wiping out Windows with UBUNTU 13.10, I felt a whole lot better, but as a few days passed by, I realized that UBUNTU just wasn’t for me, but I also knew that I was onto something with Linux in general…
Then I wiped out UBUNTU and installed MINT. Loved it–but it was not quite what I was after…
I got back on the Internet and stumbled upon openSUSE, and read someone’s post that it was the right operating system for laptops. I use only laptops and smart phones–so had to give openSUSE a try…
I’m home. openSUSE is simply the best operating system I have ever used on my laptop. I absolutely love it. It’s stable, easy to install and to run, has everything I need and then some, including a chess board. I have always wanted to learn chess! Anyway, I’m learning chess.
And now, to take the proverbial bull by the horns…
I want to learn more about Linux, and openSUSE in particular. So, I’ve been watching every beginner tutorial I can find and have started to learn code. I could not be happier. My old 32-bit Toshiba laptop with its intel Centrino Duo processor has never run better or smoother. Just when I thought I had to throw it in the trash because of all the Windows corruption, here I am running the machine like it’s new. Coincidentally, I’d also read that Linux runs best with AMD processors, so I put that idea to the test by running out and picking up another old 32-bit laptop, a Dell Latitude D531. It was running windows XP, so I wiped it out, naturally, and installed openSUSE. This thing runs even smoother, quieter, quicker, and more powerfully than the Toshiba, if that’s possible.
I’m sticking with Linux, so, if you have any reading recommendations for a newbie, please, pass them forward. I am running out of YouTube tutorials to try out–and it’s just starting to make sense and to get really interesting. Gotta keep up the good work!
Thanks!