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NewsForge: Ex-Star Trek Star to be “World’s Number One Linux Cheerleader”

“‘Now, I’ve been toying with dumping Windows for almost a year,’
Wheaton writes in his blog. ‘The Open Source movement really
appeals to my anarchistic and individualistic tendencies, and
everyone I know who uses Linux tells me that I won’t miss Windows
at all. I don’t really use any software that’s Windows-specific,
except Dreamweaver, and I’m told that I can run that under WINE, or
find a comparable OS editor.’

“With Lindows borked, Wheaton didn’t even try to go through tech
support at Michael Robertson’s kingdom. He went straight for the
real thing: Mandrake.

“‘…last night, I crossed the rubicon and installed Mandrake
8.2…'”

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