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I‘m typing this on my third Linux installation, and as were the first two different flavours of Linux I’ve tried, this Mandrake 10.1 installation seems to be as problematic as the others. ‘The others’ in this case refer to Knoppix and Linspire, two other distributions of Linux which I’ve tried in the past.

Knoppix didn’t work for me because it was never meant to be installed–the flavour was to be run off the CD directly.

Linspire didn’t work for me either because it was meant to be a payware, where you pay to get extra functionalities.

This time, Mandrake doesn’t work because somehow some tools just didn’t work. So far I’ve spotted Konqueror not working, and the Home directory not accessible. And whenever I go to the KDE Configuration thingie (I’m not too sure what they’re officially called since I was applying instructions as written on a webpage) the system somehow always stopped responding. I didn’t bother to find out what other programs don’t work, since those seem to be bad enough to have a decent, stable environment. Even my external hard drive doesn’t seem to be detected properly–either this or my lack of experience with external hard drives in Linux.

Maybe in the future, when I have my own desktop (maybe some flavours of Linux just refuse to run off laptops) and the luxury of time, I’ll grab a decent book like ‘Linux for Dummies’ and start off all over again slowly until I can get rid of as much Microsoft as possible from my system. For the moment, my Mandrake installation will simply be a testbed where I can familiarise myself better with Linux.

Getting rid of as much Microsoft as possible from my system will definitely be not an easy journey. Having been using Microsoft products ever since I was a child (those were the days of MS-DOS) I find it really tough to get myself familiarised with Linux. Those Linux terms and way of storing stuff are just out of my grasp.

Most games that I play are also running on Microsoft Windows, so that would be another problem to be overcome. I had planned to use Microsoft Windows just as a basis to run games and to run things that won’t run or don’t have any equivalence in Linux. So the Windows installation is supposed to be rather clean. Supposed to be.

So… It seems to be a lucky day for Microsoft, because once again, one of their defectors has returned. But… <arniestyle>I’ll be back</arniestyle>…

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