My ancient Adaptec external CD/ROM burner on my ancient Windows 2K (upgraded from NT 4.0!) machine died. Since I was going to need to somehow actually spend money on my machine I decided to just go in for a new rock-bottom website-special Dell. Since it was a brand new machine, I just decided to stick Ubuntu Breezy on it (which had just been released). I kept my old Win2K machine around for a while, until I eventually made the crucial decision to start reading my email on the new Linux machine. Once I did that, I was motivated to get the last few crucial apps running on the Linux machine (most notably, JPilot, for my Palm synching) and then there was no looking back. A few months later, I had to boot into the XP partition which came installed on my new machine (even though I didn't want it) to test out a website in Internet Explorer and it took so long to boot, with 10 million pop-ups coming up trying to sell me a subscription to some anti-spyware, anti-virus, firewall, whatever, that it it hit me how I had gotten used to the "quiet boot" of Linux.
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