good old times there were when the number of the beast contained the nifty 6, but after cracking hell open on personal computers with a forced push of ‘vista’ the company in question went on to give the 7 a try. it´s like perdition 2.0  ^^

it´s bad enough that so many friends fell to that call that they literally jumped out of the windows they have been accustomed to. i´m not supporting nor running vista or 7, so wtf? it´s so easy and comfortable nowadays getting up running an ubuntu or sabayon or what. no pact with the devil at all, and image: you need a bit time to configure the system the way you want it – but you learn for the future with open standards! don´t be dazzled by the professional moves of the manufacturers of the 7!

We become what we behold. We shape our tools and then our tools shape us.
Neil Postman

so…

… the next time you sit in front of your cool pc running a crippled windows as os you could surf to distrowatch and read about your new, future operating system! distrowatch has plenty of them with detailled description. open source has some neat advantages, you will see. and there´s so much love out there, people writing tutorials i.e. on how to install your graphics card or how to get a tv tuner card running. okay there is lots of noise around windows, too. but see these seven sins of the 7 and be enlightened to throw it off your pc in the next 48hrs.

changing the system can be a hard task; almost as hard to change an old aged behaviour. that needs time and confidence… and positive feedback (that should be doable!).

so to speak, forget about infected files, the vast amount of security issues, nasty hidden services, apps phoning to the home of evil and the internet explorer. forget about digital rights management (d´oh!) and your learned behaviour to press Start to shut down the computer… we´ve all been trained to go for the banana hehe.

you can do all your regluar stuff on a linux system

• open office is way more sticking to standards and has overall equal functions like the office blowfessional
• pidgin is capable of letting you chat on icq, msn, yahoo, jabber… except for skype, but you can download skype for linux if you like it
• access the web with opera firefox iron
• email organizing, planning, programming, mindmapping, image editing, project managment, web publishing, gaming… open source is growing everywhere! and that´s so heavenly good.
• media players are onboard almost every desktop linux os these days… what else could one need in the everyday mode?

if there´s a task you need perform, you can always use the packet manager of the system to download binaries or source code (depending on your chosen system). in that packet manager you can search for tags and descriptions fitting your needs. in most cases you´ll find an appropriate piece of software that does the job.

… hmm that felt good, i wanted to write about that for a long time… (as you can see on blog posts like uninstall vista baby that are well known for their brevity)