But Linux has so many little things wrong with it!

"The time has come. You have heard so much about this Linux operating system. Everybody seems to be raving about it. Just about every job description for Information Technology has the words Linux knowledge bandied about in them. It's time, you think, to give this Linux the good old college try.

"So you prepare some space on your hard drive. Perhaps copy those piratebay, bittorrent and rapidshare downloaded movies, music and, er, saucy pictures, to some sort of backup media. Slipped in the shiny, freshly burned CD or DVD rom of some Linux distribution a friend or magazine recommended or gave to you.

"You are surprised that the setup was so easy. In no time at all you are staring at a freshly installed Linux distribution. It seems blindingly fast compared to your windows installation. However you hadn't installed any programs as yet. Hmmm, you look around at what has been installed and are pleased that most of the programs you use are already installed."

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