Ended up getting a heck of a virus on my laptop not that long ago. My laptop is normally my "do not do anything fishy" computer but I ended up having to take apart my desktop so I could do work on someone else's computer and while I was waiting for the OS to install I was like heck with it. So I went to my normal anime site and sure enough... the ONE time I go to that site with my laptop I get a virus.
Normally it's a standard restart into safe mode and do a restore kind of thing... but this time it knocked out my MRB and I couldn't get it recovered.
So, being the WIndows 95 person that I am (though I'm running windows 7 now) I figured FDISK cures ALL!!!
No big, lost about 25 gigs of music... other then that I had everything else on a different partition of the hard drive so it wasn't bad. But still. Getting sick of reinstalling windows every time I watch some cartoons =/
Windows 7 has been a FANTASTIC OS... but it's not Linux.
So I figured download a new Ubuntu (the live boot CD I toyed with a few years ago was REAL old I guess) and low and behold it's a bit different then I remembered it.... REAL different.
It sorta feels like Windows 7 with the new UI and the search field for inside the "start menu" / app menu. And the kicker, the part that I'm liking the MOST... is the installer for applications.
I grew up with DOS. I know DOS. Linux is like growing up with English and having to learn Latin to me. Before I had a heck of a time trying to install a program onto Linux and now I'm just one click away from installing new things (even though I've been lucky enough to get grub-customizer installed through the terminal on two computers now).
I might be a sally for not being able to do Linux like a true geek, but it feels good to be able to get something accomplished for once on a Linux distro.
Just thought I'd share.