What is Rudkin On Linux about?
If you would have asked me about Linux a few years ago I would have claimed that it was miles away from reaching mainstream users and it didn’t include half the features that Microsoft provides with Windows XP. Now these thoughts and comments had no grounding as I had never seen or tried Linux!
Earlier on this year I was toying with the idea of upgrading to Windows Vista, it was for no reason other than the fact that I wanted to have the so called latest and greatest. I was soon put off by the negative press and most of all the unattractive price tag! On discussing this with a friend, he suggested that I tried Linux, and in particular Ubuntu. That was back in March and now I rarely run Windows, and if I do it’s usually under a virtual machine in Linux.
The journey has not been smooth all the way, and in fact I am still having issues with certain pieces of hardware and finding the best software for each task, but I what I intend to do with this blog is share my experience and hopefully encourage those who are skeptical about a move to Linux to simply give it a try. Where possible I will give step by step guides on how I achieved different things so that hopefully other people can benefit from the late nights I have spent trying to get something to work!