Mr_Grieves
January 12th, 2006, 02:36 AM
Gaming has always been a strong interest and I like when things "just work". After Amiga and Workbench went down the drain I started gaming on Windows.
In 1999 I had my first Linux experience, on Redhat. As I can remember, it was a pretty cold, stiff experience.. I still liked to play alot of games, so after my interest for programming went cold, I went back to Windows. I kept Linux on dual-boot but Windows was undoubtly the winner on my home desktop.
In 2002 I got a job where I got to work with development on Linux, this was great because I liked the open source enviorment, even if I couldn't play many games in it. Still I was abit frustrated about the fact that Windows often "just worked", especially when it came to installing new systems. Sure Windows has it's bad sides (uhm), but still, user friendlyness was no. 1 for me. Linux felt alot like it's ancient father Unix.
The change came in the beginning of of November, 2005. I was sick of Windows after alot of problems and I started to think about a migration to Linux at home. I had gotten the newest version of Fedora Core 4 on DVD some week ago.. Yea.. it was time. I booted my new desktop (Pentium IV 3,4 Gz, Nvidia 6800 GT, SB Audigy 2 ZS, 1 gb ram, 2x250gb S-ATA disks ) with Fedora but was crushed when it could not detect my S-ATA disks. I just wanted it to work.. and now black clouds darkened my Linux sunrise. It felt like nothing had changed since 1999. I tested SuSE, but ran into new problems installing. I put my Linux migration on ice.
One week later a friend told me about this great new Linux distribution that "just worked". He had installed it both on his desktop and his laptop without any effort at all. It was Ubuntu Linux ofcourse. I immidiatly burned down a Ubuntu Linux Breezy Badger Live-CD and booted my desktop with it. It booted directly with sound, fully functioning grafics.. everything. I had to do 3-4 choices during the installation.
1 hour later, including the time it took to download/burn the Ubuntu install CD, I was using the Breezy Badger. Everything just worked. I had 1600x1200 resolution, fully working sound, network automaticly setup, Nvidias drivers installed in 1 minute via the Synaptic packet manager and voila, I had high performance 3D.
The OS was like nothing I had experienced before. Quick, responsive and the next week I downloaded Wine.. I couldn't almost believe it, I was playing games in Linux! It took me atmost 3 hours, including searching information, downloading software and game to get Counter-Strike working. I got so exhited that I wrote a little mini-howto on how to get it working, put it on a site and voilá, 30-40 people / day from all over the world was reading and taking use of my experience. I was home. Not only did everything work, but I was atlast a part of the Open Source community, I could feel it, I was home.
Fighting the good fight and having extremly fun at the same time is unbeatable. I'd like to thank all of you that make Ubuntu Linux and the Open Source community to what it is today! It just works!
In 1999 I had my first Linux experience, on Redhat. As I can remember, it was a pretty cold, stiff experience.. I still liked to play alot of games, so after my interest for programming went cold, I went back to Windows. I kept Linux on dual-boot but Windows was undoubtly the winner on my home desktop.
In 2002 I got a job where I got to work with development on Linux, this was great because I liked the open source enviorment, even if I couldn't play many games in it. Still I was abit frustrated about the fact that Windows often "just worked", especially when it came to installing new systems. Sure Windows has it's bad sides (uhm), but still, user friendlyness was no. 1 for me. Linux felt alot like it's ancient father Unix.
The change came in the beginning of of November, 2005. I was sick of Windows after alot of problems and I started to think about a migration to Linux at home. I had gotten the newest version of Fedora Core 4 on DVD some week ago.. Yea.. it was time. I booted my new desktop (Pentium IV 3,4 Gz, Nvidia 6800 GT, SB Audigy 2 ZS, 1 gb ram, 2x250gb S-ATA disks ) with Fedora but was crushed when it could not detect my S-ATA disks. I just wanted it to work.. and now black clouds darkened my Linux sunrise. It felt like nothing had changed since 1999. I tested SuSE, but ran into new problems installing. I put my Linux migration on ice.
One week later a friend told me about this great new Linux distribution that "just worked". He had installed it both on his desktop and his laptop without any effort at all. It was Ubuntu Linux ofcourse. I immidiatly burned down a Ubuntu Linux Breezy Badger Live-CD and booted my desktop with it. It booted directly with sound, fully functioning grafics.. everything. I had to do 3-4 choices during the installation.
1 hour later, including the time it took to download/burn the Ubuntu install CD, I was using the Breezy Badger. Everything just worked. I had 1600x1200 resolution, fully working sound, network automaticly setup, Nvidias drivers installed in 1 minute via the Synaptic packet manager and voila, I had high performance 3D.
The OS was like nothing I had experienced before. Quick, responsive and the next week I downloaded Wine.. I couldn't almost believe it, I was playing games in Linux! It took me atmost 3 hours, including searching information, downloading software and game to get Counter-Strike working. I got so exhited that I wrote a little mini-howto on how to get it working, put it on a site and voilá, 30-40 people / day from all over the world was reading and taking use of my experience. I was home. Not only did everything work, but I was atlast a part of the Open Source community, I could feel it, I was home.
Fighting the good fight and having extremly fun at the same time is unbeatable. I'd like to thank all of you that make Ubuntu Linux and the Open Source community to what it is today! It just works!