[ Thanks to DC Parris for
this link. ]
“I realize the title might mislead you to believe that I’ve been
trapped in a dank, dark underground dungeon for a year. In reality,
though, I have been without Microsoft Windows for over a year. On
November 1 of last year I blew away my old Windows 98/SUSE Linux
8.0 Professional dual-boot installation, and loaded SUSE Linux 9.2
Professional, by itself, on my box. While I know others have been
Windows-free for much longer than a year, others simply cannot
imagine doing without it. Here’s my experience.“I started in 1995 with a DOS 6.22/Windows 3.11 box. I quickly
learned to manage my memory and other system features by editing
the *.ini files, along with config.sys and autoexec.bat. I could
fix things that went wrong by going to those files and making minor
changes. I would occasionally revamp my system completely, and
became something of a shade tree computer tech. I would later
discover the advantages of separating the GUI from the underlying
operating system, but at the time, that was all I really knew. I
honestly am grateful to have experienced Microsoft’s operating
systems–it’s how I got into computing…”