Comment 225 for bug 1

I have to admit myself, that this bug is huge in PA. People including myself have been pretty ignorant to the whole idea that there ARE other operating systems out there. For instance it wasn't until last year, that I even realized how badly I "wanted" a Mac or even knew how one ran. So when I bought a Mac computer, I was excited until I tried to use anything on it, and realized that in order to run a ton of major applications you needed UPGRADES. At the time my computer was running 10.2.8. So all the popular known installs would install bounce on the dock and disappear.

A couple months later I sold it and got a PC. I've been using PC's for a number of years (I did start out on an old apple aloooong time ago but that's other news) so once again arrogance and ignorance is partially to blame.

Then when I got my PC I discovered that the half wit who installed (he said he upgrade from NT to XP) XP he foobarred something and there wasn't any sound. At first it didn't matter, but you know you are doing something, project and you need tunes man.

Well I tried fixing it myself, and came across someone who told me to try Ubuntu, I was hesitant because I'd never heard of "linux" before and was programmed to think that Windows was the end all of everything. I fought with the decision for a month, until I foobarred everything up so bad Windows didn't even run. I quickly burned off a copy and tried linux.

Now, I admit it was an easy install. There wasn't 30 minutes of looking at the same splash screen of Microsoft XP features over and over again, and you could pretty much surf the web or other things while you install.

But after installation I had no idea what to do next. I didn't know you needed to the gstreamer plugins, or to apt-get anything. I didn't know how to mount my drive because all of that stuff ALREADY WORKED in windows (aside from sound) which by the way sound worked right out of the box with Ubuntu. I think I reinstalled Ubuntu/Kubuntu/Xubuntu/Gentoo at least 6 or 7 times, and obtained Windows again which is what I'm currently running.

I also have to admit, it isn't easy coming back now. I've been doing things the "ubuntu" way for a little over a month and still try and use the "terminal/command line" for everything. The only reason I came back to Windows? Compatibility with certain things I wanted (Last.fm never worked for me on Ubuntu, even Lastproxy or lastexit were duds) and games. (RO, which ended up eating up too much HD and was slow so I uninstalled.)

The point of this is to show that I am indeed in that majority of the population who are pretty ignorant to ubuntu's ways. Ubuntu IS glorious, and I WILL go back (as soon as I get a livecd to work in this dang computer) but for now. M$ I guess.