Background

I've ran and developed software for Windows since circa 1992 & Win 3.1 (yes, before Win 3.11 which included Windows For Workgroups networking).

I absolutely loved it when Win95 was released and we got true pre-emptive multitasking. It was world-changing!

I enjoyed various versions of Windows (2000,XP,7) and was able to skip a lot of the worst distros (9, ME, Vista) just by being slow to take up new versions.

Since 2010 every year or so I'd check out the latest Linux distros and I really liked them for their power, but I was always stuck on the packaging systems. Even being someone familiar with technology there was just a lot to do to get stuff installed. Ubuntu was always at the top of the list to check out.

How I Finally Converted to Linux via Ubuntu

Finally,in 2018 I bought PC parts to build my own computer:

• Gigabyte mainboard
• AMD Ryzen 5 2600x (6-core x 2 = 12)
• Nvidia GeForce GTX 1660
• 16 GB RAM

Anyways, I installed Win10 on it and it would crash after running for about 5 minutes. BSOD!! Terrible.

I was really irritated. I installed Ubuntu on it (dual boot) and started running Ubuntu 18.04.

Ubuntu didn't crash for 3 days. I even left it running a solid 48 hours at one point.

Well, it was indeed bad hardware and since Ubuntu crashed too I was able to take all the hardware back and replace it. I haven't had a problems since.

Complete Ubuntu Take-over

However, I started using Ubuntu 18.04 and everything was faster. I do Android development and Android Studio and Android emulator are just smoking fast. The low memory usage by the OS itself is so amazing. Visual Stuio Code (VSC) released and runs natively on Linux (I'm also a C# dev) and I discovered that I could do 80% of the work I wanted to do using VSC.

The more I used Ubuntu the less I wanted to use Win10. Finally, I have recently converted to Ubuntu 20.04 and run it 100% of the time now.

I recently deleted my windows 10 partition and now run it as a VM (Oracle VirtualBox) inside of my Ubuntu 20.04 installation. :)

Background

I've ran and developed software for Windows since circa 1992 & Win 3.1 (yes, before Win 3.11 which included Windows For Workgroups networking).

I absolutely loved it when Win95 was released and we got true pre-emptive multitasking. It was world-changing!

I enjoyed various versions of Windows (2000,XP,7) and was able to skip a lot of the worst distros (98, ME, Vista) just by being slow to take up new versions.

Since 2010 every year or so I'd check out the latest Linux distros and I really liked them for their power, but I was always stuck on the packaging systems. Even being someone familiar with technology there was just a lot to do to get stuff installed. Ubuntu was always at the top of the list to check out.

How I Finally Converted to Linux via Ubuntu

Finally,in 2018 I bought PC parts to build my own computer:

• Gigabyte mainboard
• AMD Ryzen 5 2600x (6-core x 2 = 12)
• Nvidia GeForce GTX 1660
• 16 GB RAM

Anyways, I installed Win10 on it and it would crash after running for about 5 minutes. BSOD!! Terrible.

I was really irritated. I installed Ubuntu on it (dual boot) and started running Ubuntu 18.04.

Ubuntu didn't crash for 3 days. I even left it running a solid 48 hours at one point.

Well, it was indeed bad hardware and since Ubuntu crashed too I was able to take all the hardware back and replace it. I haven't had a problems since.

Complete Ubuntu Take-over

However, I started using Ubuntu 18.04 and everything was faster. I do Android development and Android Studio and Android emulator are just smoking fast. The low memory usage by the OS itself is so amazing. Visual Stuio Code (VSC) released and runs natively on Linux (I'm also a C# dev) and I discovered that I could do 80% of the work I wanted to do using VSC.

The more I used Ubuntu the less I wanted to use Win10. Finally, I have recently converted to Ubuntu 20.04 and run it 100% of the time now.

I recently deleted my windows 10 partition and now run it as a VM (Oracle VirtualBox) inside of my Ubuntu 20.04 installation. :)