So we learn overtime how to manipulate the system, break the rules, do what we want. The system, it’s just that which controls us and holds us in. We can’t escape the system, can we? Of course! There’s always an alternative, another option, or a way out of the problem. For us, it’s linux. Ubuntu for some, SuSe for others, and even FreeBSD for those hardcore guys who know linux in and out. Windows is our jail, our system, our punishment.
There’s only one way to really escape the problems of Windows and that is to just let go and escape. Of course a full switch is hard for most of us as it’s just not logical in the least at any time since all of “our” software runs from Windows. What can we do to keep those pictures, documents, or applications? Well the others who have rid themselves of the one big virus called Windows have been working on that for a long time. Wine has become something of a prodigy amungst linux users that rely on certain windows applications to work. However, for those applications that don’t, there’s always a “Virtual Box” for windows. I currently have an install on my laptop of Virtual Box OSE 2.2.4 which has an installation of Windows XP Home on a virtual hard disk. If there’s something I “have” to do in windows on my laptop, it’s there. I can manage to work with the problem and go from there. Plus backing up Windows is easy this way! I just copy the file and put it on my storage drive!
So, even if you’re still “worried” about a full change to linux, just remember that there are alternatives to help you free yourself from that Microsoft dependency. No matter how far we go with Linux, Microsoft will always own the share of the market that linux can’t touch. The professional business user will make use of a Windows machine before thinking realistically about Linux. But you can make the change and many who do end up never going back to overpriced pieces of malware.
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