Ten days with Linux

Ghosts often experiment on themselves in order to find out what looks scary on them. creepyghost is no exception. As he poses to be a human medium for posting on this weblog, he is currently using himself as a subject of a small research conducted by himself. The object of the research is to observe how easily does a Windows user adapt if he is forced into using Linux by the Open Source generation.

Behold! The mighty Tux!

Linux comes in lots and lots of distros. Creepyghost wanted something professional as well as not entirely command-line dependent. Although creepyghost has tried Linux without GUIs, Linux with GUIs is quite a new experience for him. So, after haunting the internet for a long time, he decided to use an old version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. “This should be easy”, was what creepyghost wailed.

His journal entries follow:-

Day 1:-

Wow! Linux is great! Ready to work in 15 minutes. Linux is fast! It does not match the looks of Vista but it gives XP tough competition.  The only glitch faced by now is that it couldn’t find some stupid driver and just refused to install unless I did something about this issue! Just before the day ended, the required driver was found and everything chugged along. Installation was a real pain. This may be due to the fact that it isn’t supported too much. Moreover, this is an old version and cannot be compared to Vista. It’s really painful even if I compare it to XP.

Day 3:-

Whoa! This thing has more bugs than the no. of fleas on my dog ( I haven’t counted, seriously!). Two days into it and I’ve faced 5 unsuccessful startups. Gotta find some good games to play on this. This is not going to be easy! Even though I’ve worked on CLI based OSes before, this seems weird, alien and definitely spooky. And how the hell do you get the equivalent of the task manager?!? Hell hath no fury like this thing if it ever hangs.

As the “research” progresses, further weblog entries will mark it.