It's been a long time since I used Linux... erhm, professionally. I
used to be an avid user, until I started working with Java, and, well,
Java is all about platform independence, right? So I just used whatever
operating system I got on my hands. At work, it's not unusual to not
even be able to install Linux, so that little OS from Redmond ended up
being my main operating system. I still used Mozilla, OpenOffice,
Eclipse, Gimp, Cygwin and all other kinds of open-source software
available for Windows, so migration was a very easy task.
Today, after some hours on one of my longest apt-get dist-upgrades, I
installed Gnome 2, with all the bells and whistles possible (I think I
have enough processing power for that - a 2.6ghz Pentium 4 should do,
eh? :)), and I must say I'm totally impressed with this desktop
environment. Since I used it (from the old days of 1.4), practically
everything changed, everything looks shiny, new, fresh, and, most
importantly - easy! It's a very user-friendly desktop, despite all my
beliefs to the contrary. Galeon is as sleek as it gets, and so far
Nautiulus proved to be a useful file browser (really, do you use a file
browser on Linux, other than bash?). Gaim is a great little IM tool,
too. Loved it :)
I'm still trying to get some things to work, like sound, modem, USB
memory stick reader, DVD recorder and power management features, but so
far my thought has been "shit, why haven't I tried doing this before!
This stuff is awesome!".
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