My experience and memories on Linux using

I fall in love with Linux when I was at college.  Once I searched on the Internet and find it an operating system that can compete with Microsoft Windows. There is also an OS called Mac OS which is attractive, but only Linux and free and open-source. There are widely range of different version of Linux.  Among them are popular Linux versions such as Ubuntu Linux , Linux mint, Fedora ,SUSE Linux. The ranking of them on distrowatch changes constantly as newer versions develop and old ones die out . 

Debian and slackware are two of the oldest ones. While slackware is only used by researchers and some geek, debian is widely used on servers due to its stability.

What’s more, many different versions are diverged from debian, one of the most famous one is Ubuntu. Linux mint is based on Ubuntu. And they both use the package system called deb. Another popular package system is RPM of redhat. Fedora and SUSE are based on it. Many third party Linux sofwares offer deb and rpm installers. It is difficult to install software from the tar.gz source code. Linux versions such as arch Linux and gentoo are unique at their ways of handling it. Gentoo users can “emerge –the name of the softwares” to compile softwares. Because gentoo uses a package managing system similar to that of BSD-antoher Unix based operating system which is called portage. Arch users can make use with the similar ‘pacman’method to install softwares. Under deb based Linux systems , we usually need to update the software resources in order to meet the relying relation of the installation. I once tried an arch-based version called chakra which tries a way of packing all relative relies in the installer package making it similar to the Windows exe msi or Mac OS img installers. However, most Linux versions still rely on so-called software managers to install softwares.

Among the various Linux versions , I tried Ubuntu earlier . I learned of it in the year of 2007. I do not how to install it so I downloaded different versions of ISO called i386 net install and so on. In fact ,what I need to a clean desktop versions which either gnome or kde desktop manager installed. Kde is still on version 3 and gnome on version 2 at that time. Though I tried Ubuntu 7.04 in virtual machine, the real first common use version of Linux is Ubuntu 8.04. We can also ask for free Ubuntu cd from canonical on the shipit program. Since I know little of how to install it on my desktop .  I asked for one on canonical shipit in May and the cd was shipped to me in June from Holland. So I am grateful for Ubuntu as my first guide to Linux and open-source world. Ubuntu even has an amazing convenient feature to install Ubuntu within Windows with wubi installer without any formation of disks and so many other inspection process . But wubi is ceased to develop several years later.

Is there any replacement for Windows operating system?

Does Linux work fine to satisfy daily usage ?