impleri

After doing some research, i think i’m completely ditching Windows for my computer. The one thing that was keeping me back was the ability to play my games (AoE, C&C, Myst, Starcraft, etc) because they are Windows-based. Well, i found out about WinE today. i’ve checked on all of my games and people have had success with each of them. Now, all i need to do is get the printer accessible through Samba for my wife’s Windows laptop and i’ll be a free man. Aside from that, i will do a clean install of my system once i’ve gotten everything from the Windows side of things and go with an as-minimal-as-possible system. i think i’ll have both Gnome and KDE installed, even though i’m preferential to KDE. So much, in fact, that my default browser will be Konqueror and my email client will be KMail. i’ve already switched to aKgregator for RSS feeds and amaroK for music. i’m still wavering between Gaim and Kopete for my messaging program. Both work will all services i use, so the decision will be based on the look-and-feel and the integration. i also a few programs looking through the repositories which look interesting: kdissert and tellico. kdissert is a “mind-mapping” program useful for writing lengthy papers (i.e. dissertations). tellico is a collections program used to maintain a database of any kind of collection (books, cds, art pieces, etc). With all of the neatness of Linux distributions, i’ll be sticking with Debian, but moving to the “testing” version as it seems to be stable enough to use as a server yet updated enough to have recent programs. It is expected to be released as the next stable version in December. i think it would be fun one day to compile everything in Linux from their sources, but i don’t think i’m saavy enough to do so without screwing things up.