I’ve played with linux off and on for several years now. I say played with because I have to say that in all honesty I would never trust any distro that I’ve ever tried on a production machine. At least not as a desktop machine. I’ve tried everything from Debian to Mandriva, DSL to Ubuntu, Mint to Xandros, and never truly found anything I’d be willing to risk important data on.
I like the idea of linux, just not linux itself unfortunately. That being said, I must admit that for some reason I have a morbid fascination with it. I guess it’s not unlike a car accident at the side of the road – something just forces you to look.
My latest masochistic endeavor is to install linux as a dual-boot with XP on an Acer Aspire One Netbook I picked up a couple of months ago (thanks, Woot!). I thought to myself, hey how hard can it be? I’ve put up dual-boot systems before! I still look back on that with fond remembrance of how young and naïve I was back then. When was that again? Oh yeah, at least three days ago…
Since then Pinhead has taken me on a tour of the bowels of Hell.
With apologies to the True Linux Believers, I give you my pain – a journey that would have Odysseus reaching for a spork to pull out his own liver.
