Posted on : 17-10-2008 | By : Japh
I’ve always been interested in Linux as an operating system, but found too many reasons to go back to Windows. Linux was just a fun, geeky thing to play around with, but not really viable for everyday use.
I had dabbled in various Linux distributions. Gave Redhat and Mandrake a go, then installed Gentoo for a while, which was a brilliant learning experience. Then almost a year ago, I started playing around with Ubuntu a bit, and then I bought an Eee PC with Xandros installed to take travelling for a few months. The Eee PC was extremely handy to have while travelling, and I found that Linux was just fine for all the things I needed to do. So when I got back to work, I decided to just continue on, install Ubuntu and see how I went.
Essentially, I haven’t looked back. I now primarily use Ubuntu on my workstation at work, and on all my computers at home. As a web developer, I primarily work with open source technologies (PHP, Apache, MySQL, Python, etc.). I usually deploy my projects to a Linux-based server, so it actually makes a lot of sense to be building sites on Linux rather than Windows.
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