Linux and a note on Freedom

There is alot of freedom that comes with running a GNU/Linux system, but with alot of freedom comes alot of decisions, which, like all decisions, come with patience, diligence, and a willingness to understand the parameters of the situation.

I've noted quite a bit of folks complaining about installing Linux and I can relate in many ways to being frustrated at times, but at some point it always occurs to me that I still have it alot better than I ever did using proprietarty OSes and Software.

I've been an avid Debian user for almost 2 years. It took me 1 install to get a functional system. I ended up changing my mind about which filesystem I wanted to use (settled on XFS and LVM) so I experimented a bit and after a total of 3 installs, I finally had the system I really wanted. I've been running that same testing system for 2 years without a crash — with extremely long uptimes I might add.

Throughout the last 2 years I've struggled with some hardware compatabilities, CD burning, sound, playing/viewing proprietary media formats, and in general the learning curve that had to be overcome for me to tweak my system to my finicky standards. Overall, I can say that every challenge that I had to overcome, was worth it. After a while you get the hang of how things are done in the Open Source world.

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