Fractal Dreams

Well, the pc is back in its rightful table here in the pseudo-office. Just received it yesterday afternoon. True enough, the windows installation is nixed, and now I’m using the nifty Zenwalk Linux.

I cheated on the experience, since I had someone else do the installing and configurations of the OS for me, so I really can’t comment on the ease of the installation of the system. The graphical user interface (Xfce) that Zenwalk uses is crisp and visually pleasing. The usage conventions do feel different from someone just out of windows, (such as right-clicking to access your programs menu, akin to the windows’ start button), but since I tried damn small linux for a little while (just hours, actually) before hand, I’m getting used to it. The OS is preloaded with a variety of applications, like GIMP for graphic work and AbiWord for typing documents, and they all load quickly, which is quite surprising compared to the old lumbering memory mammoths I once used.

But since I’m stuck in the windows GUI mindset, I still have a ways to go before I can feel comfortable working with a Linux system, and I still feel daunted with fiddling around with the Bash command shell. But, as they say, it never hurts to try (as long as you don’t delete anything).