I am not exactly precise on when exactly I started using Linux, but I know that as a write this I have officially entered my 5th year as a Linux user.
It was around this time back in 2004 or so I started using Linux, trying out distros like Yoper, OpenSuse and Mepis.
As I might have mentioned Mepis was the first distro I have successfully installed and kept and its been a roller coaster ride since that time.
But that roller coaster ride has had many more ups then downs, I have experienced incredible highs but even the lows seemed to have their merits.
The great progress linux has made is what makes me stick with it, even when I had severe issues with it at times Linux has served me better then anything Microsoft has given me.
To think how much progress Linux has made in the time I have used it is amazing, the experiment gets better every day that my computer turns on and the adventure continues.
Linux is the little kernel that could, it keeps chugging along with little to no obstacle to block its progress.
Right now Linux actually feels very alien to when I first started using it, but still maintains its ease of use.
I have come to the point that Linux feels like home, that it is windows that gives computers a bad rep and that Linux is the more easier to use.
My evaluation is the same now as when I first started using Linux:
That linux is the best OS with so much promise and if given the time and place could overtake windows without question.
I see linux as the future, where computers will go in the next few years.
Even with Windows 7 on the horizon I see it nothing more then hype, if we get another Vista out of Win7 (and you know I think we will, things might look good for MS now but we only have Beta's and RC's to tell the story) then Linux's future is secure
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