Ten Days With Linux – Days 8, 10 (Finale)

Depression, smoke, depression, PSUs, depression, calls to mechanics and, (you guessed it!) more depression. Later, the PSU’s condenser was replaced (It was out of warranty period) after two days!!! “Why me?!?” wailed creepyghost when he found the time period out. Whenever you’re pleading time to pass quickly, it has the disobliging habit of speeding up as if it were making fun of you in your face!

Slowly, sluggishly, stuff happened and creepyghost’s PSU was repaired. Creepyghost is planning to put his efforts into trying to learn some hardware repairing too so that next time, he can put all restraint aside and scare all mechanics away.

Continuation of this research ensued. As this research nears its end, creepyghost feels that he is beginning to like his Linux. Now, he has finished finding out all the alternatives he required for his brief switch (being veeery practical). The research will now continue as he tries to pass lazy normal days on his PC using RHEL 5.

So, Day 8’s Journal entry:-

Day 8:-

Hokay! Everything is fixed! Ahh, the hard drive is still okay. So is the OS! May the SMPS protect ye parts. Now whatever the hell was the linux equivalent of chkdsk?!? Wasn’t it df ….? Yep, Google agrees with me too!

A scan later, the hard disk appears to be all right. Oh well, life moves on!

I’m finding one odd bug, though. Whenever I try to post something anywhere, I just can’t post anything more than two lines. I have to double post on forums. This is irritating as my posts look weird! Hoping its not the same when I switch back because I just can’t find a fix for this!

Another problem is that whenever I try to stream windows media content, obviously, it fails. Why? Because I don’t have a windows media player on Linux! Now how does one fix that? Or do people live on with it?!?

Before switching over as day 10 died, creepyghost crafted a heartwarming summary of a goodbye speech for his Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. The contents follow:-

Day 10 and Summary:-

HAHA! Time to format! Bye bye, Linux! Good Riddance! Now I can go back to a normal life with windows. I can’t say how happy I am! While I install Windows Vista, here’s the summary for this research:-

A switch to open source is a trend being followed by a lot of people these days. In fact, I’ve seen idiots who don’t even know the meaning of open source, trying out Linux just because it is open source. the sheer professional quality and polish of the Windows OS cannot be matched by a Linux distro. Nevertheless, considering that it costs less (It’s free for heaven’s sake!) it scores one against Mac and Windows here. I’ll recommend this: If you are not a leet, the best option for you is to go for paid options like Windows and Macintosh. If you still want to go free and open source, do make sure that your internet connection works and that Google is your friend.

That might not have been the most touching one, of farewells but then, that’s how creepyghost is! Really, the ghosts these days…. Anyway, this concludes the ten-day experiment. What’s next?