Three months ago, I forgot my laptop bag in my car and 15 minutes later it was too late. Someone already broke the window and took what they needed. Good news is that I’m already over it so no need to the “Awh! I’m sorry!” and the “Ah! What a shame”. Fast forward, I just got a new (Operating System-less) laptop as a graduation gift from my parents (Thank you, ma and pa). I’m glad that I found it. As it’s the ONLY OS-less laptop that I found around here (Jeddah, Saudi Arabia). So I immediately thought of what Linux Distro should I use? I settled to have a Gentoo with an Ubuntu fallback system (I have been using Ubuntu for 4-5 years now). Once I have installed Ubuntu, I noticed all the changes in Oneiric Ocelot with Unity interface and other commercializations Canonical have done. I HATED IT! Nothing appealing. Too easy. Too glossy. Too … un-geeky!!! I’m NOT gonna settle on this (not even as a fallback system)!!
Thought for a minute, burned a Fedora 15 CD and got a system up and running… It’s not as geeky as LFS or Gentoo but at least I’m learning a new system! I like it so far. Yum is easy to use! I still love how I need to tweak here and there. That little thing that annoys me about that little thing is there for me to fix. well, you know, the whole geek 1337 thing! Question is, how fast can I learn before upgrading to F16? (due in less than two weeks XD .. lol)
So, yeah! I guess maybe Fedoras don’t look good on me but they surely look good on computers!
PS. Thanks to Nour for lending me her Fedora <3!
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