Hi,
I felt "fed up" with Windows (had XP at home and Vista at work). I thought I'd give migrating to linux as "main" OS at home a go. It really got me exited and interested in computers again. The way you were when you started off as a full time computer professional many years ago.

In november I did some research as to which programs I need. You know along the line "I use X in Windows for Y - what will do this in linux?". And with the release of Fedora 10 i switched. Feels great :-)

Yeah ok, so I got dual boot :-) But I have to have Windows to do some work and internet banking (stupid bank).

I've used linux as a server OS (file and web server) for the last 8 yrs or so. I've used Fedora, RedHat, CentOS and even Mandrake (back in the day ;-). Seeing linux through PuTTY is nice enough, but using it as a desktop user really blew me away. Linux really have come far.
Migrating to Fedora has been a smooth ride so far. The only thing I've given up on using in linux so far is my Polar RS400 sports clock. But I still have some more gear to connect and get working. Although my most urgent issue is to get the wireless network in my little EEE 901 going (yeah, all computers within my reach has Fedora 10 by now ;-).

Cheers all!
/S

Hi and welcome to LQ, happy to see everything working out for you. Do not worry about the dual boot thing, more people here do it than want to admit it.

Dual booting is unnecessary with a modern computer. Virtual machines are where it is at. I presently have one copy of Win2000 and one copy of WinXP Pro up and running in VMWare on my Linux system.

Also, I don't know about "back in the day" for Mandrake (Mandriva). I ran it "back in the day" too. I still run it. Nice system.

Oh, I didn't mean "back in the day" is if Mandrake/Mandriva is bad in any way. I just meant "back in the day, when it was still called Mandrake" as a reference in time (2001 to be more precise :-). I remember liking it very much too - I just prefer Fedora :-)

As for virtual machines I do want to set it up like you said, I just haven't gotten around to it yet :-) I about to decide weather to try to get my current XP partition into a virtual machine or not. The pros are obviously that I got everything I want already installed. The con is that it feels a bit like cheating (not dropping Windows) and that my C-drive uses 40Gigs :-)

Onother disadvantage with virtual machine if your computer is as old as mine is it will slow down after the third distro. I can not vouch for the quad cores with 4 gig or better of mem.