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This story begins at the beginning of 2010.&nbsp; I was broke at the time so I was trying to find a free operating system. I needed something I could run on my PC’s at home. I had searched on the Internet, but found nothing useful for a long time. But one day &nbsp;I was at Barnes and Noble and I saw a magazine for <a class="zem_slink" title="Linux" href="https://www.zdnet.com/topics/linux?tag=header;header-sec" rel="zdnet" target="_blank">Linux</a>. (While I had heard of linux before I never thought of it as something I would ever be able to use.) When I asked people who I knew were computer professionals, I was told it was for people that were experts, and difficult to use. I never heard anything positive about it. I am so amazed that I hadn’t came across it sooner.</p>
<p>When I read the magazine I became exposed to <a class="zem_slink" title="Ubuntu (operating system)" href="https://www.ubuntu.com" rel="homepage" target="_blank">Ubuntu</a> 9.10. &nbsp;Karmic Koala. It sounded so good, as if it was exactly what I was looking for. As a result, I got very excited took it home, and to my surprise had such an easy time installing it to my PC that I decided to run it&nbsp;along with&nbsp;Windows&nbsp;XP as a <a class="zem_slink" title="Multi boot" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi_boot" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank">dual boot</a> system. All I did was put the <a class="zem_slink" title="Live CD" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live_CD" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank">live CD</a> in the drive and the&nbsp;instructions&nbsp;were step by step you would have to be pretty slow to not get how to set things up.</p>
<p>Since then I have been very satisfied with Ubuntu in general and I have been able to check out later versions of it such as 10.04 (Maverick Meerkat) and 10.10 Lucid Lynx. I am looking forward to 11.04 Natty Narwhal for how it integrates multi-touch even more than 10.04.&nbsp; This experience just goes to show once again how I&nbsp; manage to find the coolest&nbsp;stuff&nbsp;by&nbsp;accident.</p>
<p>I will keep you posted on how I learn and grow with the different distros available so keep posted.</p>
<p>Read more:&nbsp;<a href="https://computersight.com/operating-systems/windows/how-i-got-started-with-linux/#ixzz1aPlfhqoa">https://computersight.com/operating-systems/windows/how-i-got-started-with-linux/#ixzz1aPlfhqoa</a>
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