I don't know why I let myself get talked into these things.
A Linux desktop test? Trying out a couple of those oh so luser friendly distros that promise to make it real easy for microsoft refugees to jump on board the dumpster-tech tanker known as linux?

Oh yeah, no problem, let me just romve my frontal lobe first okay?
what the hell was I thinking....

I'm still reeling from my exposure to Windows.
I havent had a productive days since I let that beast into my studio 3 years ago.

98 didn't want to play nice with my USB toys, ME totally fried a drive, 2000 won't let me do desktop spanning with my dualhead video card.....

It seems like whatever I want to do I have to take my computer out behind the woodshed and teach it how to behave.

Of course, this meant I immediately started playing with the alternatives. BeOS was sweet and fast and worked great as long as your hardware was old enough and you didnt have any real work to get done.
And then there is Linux. Linux makes me wish I was a programmer. Then I could stick with it and be rid of my various headaches forever. I'm not a programmer though. I USE programms. Design and media production may not seem that hightech to most coders, but with the file sizes and filters I work with, a stabile, fast machine sure does come in handy.

Too bad there aren't any useable programms for media production on linux. The GIMP is handy in a pinch, but the interface and functionality still has a way to go before I would use it to get any real work done.

Broadcast2000? I always wondered if the people who made that ever actually needed to get a video done on deadline not to mention the smallll fact that it has an even worse interface and functionality problem than the GIMP.

At least the office type stuff met up with my next to nonexistant needs. Surfing and using media files works okay once youve gone through dependancy hell. And of course there is always the fact that linux actually allows me to get my files between PC's and Macs without all too much discomfort. It just doesnt do much to help me create any of those files.

So since my studio was just a mess of misfunctioning pc's and ageing macs, I figured what the hell, do the test. Great chance to play with some of the new distros right? Whats the worst that could happen......

I guess my usually overactive imagination failed me this time.