Paeter said:I only listen to music and browse the internet and use basic applications. I never play games. Is Linux really better for these things? Anyway, thank you. I downloaded the portable keyboard. It just sucks I have to run it all the time just to get one key back in the right spot.
For me, I think it is better for those things, if you get a light linux distro, like puppy or antix, you will be able to surf, listen to music and do word-processing and small stuff like that without installing anything, a benefit will also be that since you are running a less demanding system your machine will work less, last longer, and it will reduce fan noise, I downclocked the cpu's on my computer, and I run a fairly vanilla puppy variant, another goot thing is that you will have less problems with viruses, (as of yet there have been no bad ones) so you can safely run without anti virus running constantly in the background. But the best thing is that most things work out of the box.
That being said though, if you are comfortable with what you have, and you don't feel like learning new programs, and maybe some new ways of doing things, or think that home is better than a bit of adventure when you are using your computer I don't think anything will beat the If it ain't broken don't fix it principle.
If I sound not so prosletysing that is mostly because not everything is going to be completely as you are used to now, not worse, maybe not better, but differnt, so I don't want you to come and say that you didn't like it and that linux sucks, it doesn't it's just a bit different, I've been running linux only for 6 years now, and I love the simple and stable computing (usually my pc stays on for weeks without getting any slower) but hey, since you are at a colemak forum I don't think that you are against some change ;)
