Goodbye Windows Hello Linux

I did something against convention. Something that only a small percentage of computer users ever even consider. Something that most of the big corporation do to save money on operating systems. 

I switched from Windows 7 to Ubuntu a Linux based operating system. 

My reason for going Ubuntu came from a meandering attempt to avoid buying a newer version of Windows when Microsoft decided to stop XP support. It probably wouldn't have been a big deal when they did if it wasn't for all the gaming companies that reported they would also stop providing install options for XP machines.

I am not even sure if any of that is really happening, or if it was one guys blog I read all those years ago who suggested it might and grabbed on to that hook and got caught on some bad information. 

As a full-time gamer the possibility of being frozen out of future games made me livid. 

The first thing I did was down load a version of Windows 7 from a friend online. I wiped my PC stuck in the USB and I was flying high for almost two years. Until I got myself stuck on some bad software and developed RAM issues. Maybe a virus, but in-case my wife is reading, it probably wasn't. Just one of those unexplainable things.

Using my laptop I set up a USB with the O.S. Ubuntu on it and unplugged my hard drives to initiate the USB boot and quickly plugged back in my hard drives as the USB started doing its job. Not sure if this is how its done in the real IT world or not, but it is my work around and I offer it to the world to do with as it pleases.

Ubuntu started up immediately and went through the process of making my CPU its bitch. When it restarted in less then fifteen minutes it was ready to use. My first thought how do I stick some games on here. 

Three days later I am still trying.