I dont know if this is still the case, but Windows used be very bad with downloads through Steam. They would often drop to zero throughput. Also Alt-tabbing in an out games without the system crashing also seemed to work better on linux. So for me gaming was actually better on linux.

I don’t think I’ve turned into an evangel yet. However when I’ve passed on a computer I’d just put a fresh install of fedora on it.

No joke! A friend told me it was “the year of the Linux desktop”, because of all the recent breakthroughs in drivers and usability.

I love how this story doesn’t even remotely let you guess what year it was.

Windows 8 taking away the skeumorphic, frutiger aero theme for a plain boring flat theme as well as going with a very anti-desktop look with the start menu. I still haven’t gone back to Windows and probably never will for my personal computer (work computer is different) since I don’t see them ever bringing back the fun Vista and 7 look.

Windows

When I was in college, two older classmates whom I respected got into a hilarious argument of why Gnome was awesome and now eats rocks (their views, I had no views).

Their elaborate and very specific descriptions of functions and inconveniences drew up a picture of functionality and a e s t h e t i c I had never experienced on windows. So I proceeded to install a distro and take it for a ride