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Life and Linux

Today I installed Slackware 11.0 on my home computer as a dual-boot with Windows XP. It's been two years or more since I first started messing with Linux, but I've never fully given Windows the boot. I haven't even booted into Linux any time in the last six months.

Linux is open-source, inventive, creative, and free. It offers me freedom from a Microsoft domination and unfair economic practices. Yet, I sometimes feel threatened using Linux. The substantial speed increase and relevancy of the GUI feels good to me, yet I feel like I'm wondering in a foreign jungle. I don't belong here. There's scary things that are way bigger and better than ole' XP. And all the Windows XP users scoff when I can't get the latest games or stay up to date on the latest Microsoft [empire] news.

Scary how much this is paralleling my life.

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