Just thought, as I am new to this list, that I would introduce myself and say why I am interested in Linux. My name is Ian Higgins, I am 30 years old and I come from East Dereham in Norfolk. I have been using
Windows
XP for just over a year now. Basically I got sick of the lack of speed
that
XP "produces." I have a P4 2.5ghz - Radeon 9700 Pro - 512mb ram - 120 gb HD - and XP is so slow on it - I feel that a modern OS should be much
faster
than this. Especially given the speed of modern hardware. I also got tired of the constant maintenance that Windows requires to keep it running at anything like a "decent" speed - defragging the hard drive, cleaning out
the
registry, disabling unused services etc. I feel you shouldn`t have to do this anymore - it is so antiquated. I used an Amiga for 9 years previously and I never had to do any maintenance on that. :-) I decided to give Linux
a
go - RedHat9 to be precise - a little while ago and haven`t looked back. Once I can get Linux online then XP will be ditched for good - had a few problems with my adsl modem. Linux is such a responsive and beautifully written OS - it reminds me alot of Workbench on my old A1200. Unlike
Windows
it lets you work the way that you want to - plus it looks so much better
to
boot.
Welcome. I used to have an Amiga too several years ago. You could connect any combination of add-ons to that machine and it would handle it. My old A500 used to have 2 RAM expansions, a video digitiser and a hard drive all connect to a SINGLE expansion slot.
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