{"id":8,"date":"2008-12-15T10:48:32","date_gmt":"2008-12-15T15:48:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fw.hardijzer.nl\/?p=8"},"modified":"2009-01-08T09:55:03","modified_gmt":"2009-01-08T14:55:03","slug":"making-the-switch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fw.hardijzer.nl\/?p=8","title":{"rendered":"Making the switch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I love the GNU and Linux philosophy. I love the command-line. Yet, I&#8217;m still running Windows Vista.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve tried, honestly. A few days before last year&#8217;s Biton LAN Party, I decided to switch to Ubuntu. I liked it at first, but then things started to piss me off: I couldn&#8217;t find a proper replacement for Visual Studio, Wine failed to produce any sound, and as soon as I wanted something slightly different, something in Ubuntu would fail. After a day at the LAN without any gaming done, I gave up an just booted to Vista. After all, what&#8217;s a LAN party without games ?<\/p>\n<p>At least 6 months have passed since then, and I still long for a Linux desktop. My recent adventures with setting up a MythBuntu server at home and playing around with an ArchLinux Gaming LiveDVD have only made that longing stronger. So I&#8217;ve decided that once I&#8217;m back in the Netherlands, I&#8217;m going to give it another try. And this time slightly more prepared.<\/p>\n<p>So I&#8217;ve taken the time to make a little list stating things I should investigate before making the plunge, and I&#8217;ll try to tackle them one at a time later on. So here goes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Which distribution? Ubuntu sounds simple, but once you start messing in the configuration it breaks horribly. And there are so many around nowadays, why not look a bit further?<\/li>\n<li>KDE or Gnome? or even XFCE?<\/li>\n<li>What apps do I rely on, and what are their Linux counterparts?<\/li>\n<li>If counterparts are not available for a specific app, will it work under Wine or a VM ?<\/li>\n<li>My hardware should all work (especially my networked HP Laserjet 4000 printer, which was failing last time in Ubuntu)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>For now, that&#8217;s all I can think of. I&#8217;ll try to maintain that todo list, and occasionally post about some of the things I found out.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love the GNU and Linux philosophy. I love the command-line. Yet, I&#8217;m still running Windows Vista. I&#8217;ve tried, honestly. A few days before last year&#8217;s Biton LAN Party, I decided to switch to Ubuntu. I liked it at first, but then things started to piss me off: I couldn&#8217;t find a proper replacement for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/fw.hardijzer.nl\/?p=8\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Making the switch<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[19,18,14,17,16,15],"class_list":["post-8","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","tag-archlinux","tag-debian","tag-linux","tag-ubuntu","tag-vista","tag-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fw.hardijzer.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fw.hardijzer.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fw.hardijzer.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fw.hardijzer.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fw.hardijzer.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/fw.hardijzer.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36,"href":"https:\/\/fw.hardijzer.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions\/36"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fw.hardijzer.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fw.hardijzer.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fw.hardijzer.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}