I have decided to uninstall Windows on my computer, and install OpenSuSe 10. This is because I don’t really have any reason to keep windows on that computer, and because I like linux. Windows also is really slow (its a Celeron 400Mhz with 192MB of ram). All I use if for is school work (word processing) and web browsing. I already browse the internet with Firefox, and I can use Abiword, Koffice or OpenOffice to do office stuff. It looks like my wireless card (Belkin F5D7000) will work with Ndiswraper, so that shouldn’t be a problem. I won’t use XGL, so my graphics card should be sufficient. The only thing that I think won’t work is my Sound Blaster 16, but if I can’t find a driver, I can get a $35 sound card from Umart.
I am already downloading the CD images via Bittorrent, so I’ll have the CDs burnt within a few days. I’ll blog about the process, and any troubles I come into. I am very optimistic that it will go pretty smoothly, as desktop Linux is rapidly becoming so much easier to use.
I really like KDE, and would like to use it as a window manager, but if that is a bit sluggish, I might use the very lightweight XFCE manager. We’ll see.
-Stephen
