Linked by Gilboa Davara on Thu 30th Jun 2005 12:29 UTC
If you've heard about Linux and feel like giving it a go or if you want to try Linux but you're too afraid it'll shew up your computer, this article is for you. Read it, feel free to take what you need and ignore the rest. This is not a tutorial, it's a README-FIRST-like article. It should help you to take that first dive.
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This was an excellent little post.
Those are all the exact things I tell people when they ask me about Linux. Unfortunately when I made the switch, I had to learn every one of those lessons on my own the hard way.
Complaining aside, even when I had both the Win machine and the Lin machine running, I never really felt free or like a real "Linux user" until after I swore off Win, wiped Win off the hard drive, and installed the drive into my Lin machine to be set up as a /home partition to store all my personal files there in the /home directory. It was like I had quit smoking or lost 150 pounds...
One thing I would add to the article is that just by learning to use linux, I would postulate that you are forced you to become a more active computer user; the mystique of the magical computer is reduced to turn a computer into a tool you can understand and control to get the most use out of. It forces its user to ask "what do I want to do" and "how can I do that?", because you don't have the marketing people holding your hand and telling you you need this or that...