"Linux makes everything sexy"

So recently my computer bit the dust. At first I wasn't really sure what the problem was. Maybe the battery was going because it never seemed to start on battery power, but then why did it sometimes not start on AC power? Maybe when windows tried to update the BIOS it flashed it wrong, and now I need a new BIOS? After several weeks of confusion and too many blue screens of death from vista I came to the conclusion that windows sucks and it ate my BIOS. So, I got an image of Ubuntu and booted from a CD. Now able to access all my files (instead of windows crashing after 30 seconds of running) I moved them all to an external hard drive and made the move.

During a late night earlier this week I managed to get Ubuntu installed on my laptop. Many of my close friends had been telling me the wonders of it, and I had always been a bit curious about linux. So, in the heat of being furious with windows, it was the only option

Now my computer is looking very sexy and is quite happy running Ubuntu. In fact, I think it runs better on linux than it ever did on windows. Vista managed to always eat up all my ram and slowed down my laptop incredibly. Now, even when I run windows XP inside of linux, it runs 100 times faster than with just vista.

And other agree, that Linux does do many things better than Windows, in fact, one person even went and wrote down 10 things linux does better than windows, see for your self:

If you tallied up the strengths and weaknesses of Linux and Windows, which OS would come out ahead? According to Jack Wallen, superiority in security, flexibility, interoperability, community, and command-line power (among other things) put Linux well ahead. (from techrepublic.com)

While there are still some bugs, and it freezes every now and then, overall, I think the move was a good idea. Even though the BIOS is still mad at me. While I still don't know all the ins and outs of linux, luckily I know someone who does, so things are working out pretty good. The only downside is that I miss my iTunes...

BUT! What prompted this rant, other than my frustration at windows and excitement over linux, was that I was catching up on reading Penny Arcade and came across one that I think describes my problem.... (as seen here)

I think maybe I "project some kind of goddamn feild" that messes up any computer I touch. Anyway, that was about the excitement of my week (that is blog-worthy), staying up 'till 3 am installing linux, yea thats just how cool I am.