I cre­ated with site because when I was a new Linux user (in many ways I still am) and I was con­stantly search­ing the Inter­net for answers to Linux related ques­tions.  Of course, thanks to Inter­net answers are abun­dant to nearly any ques­tion imag­in­able and the qual­ity of those answers vary as well.  I wanted to cre­ate a web­site that would tackle com­mon ques­tions and issues, while also shar­ing some insight to some of the things I’ve dis­cov­ered as a highly expe­ri­ences Microsoft Win­dows user who now uses Linux.  I also encour­age peo­ple to com­ment or ask their own Linux ques­tions; I’ll do my best to answer them (time permitting).

So, what makes me the expert on Linux; I’m not.  There are a lot of peo­ple out there who know Linux inside and out, whereas, my expe­ri­ence and per­spec­tive is pre­sented as a user for other daily users.  As a daily user, you prob­a­bly won’t find any­one else with more nor­mal inter­ac­tions with their computer(s).  I am a full-time entre­pre­neur, and as such, my daily tasks run all over the place, from sim­ple task to email­ing to more com­plex tasks such as cre­at­ing inter­ac­tive pre­sen­ta­tions.  Like any man­ager or busi­ness owner, I’m tasked with an assort­ment of respon­si­bil­i­ties and my pri­mary pro­duc­tiv­ity tool is my computer.

Neces­sity dic­tated my tran­si­tion to Linux.  I needed a com­puter that was light­en­ing fast, and as most any Microsoft Win­dows user knows, the longer you use  a sin­gle install of win­dows, the slower and slower it becomes…  I was tired of the crashes, the hang ups, the occas­sional virus threat and com­mon spy­ware intru­sions.  I was tired of hav­ing to research and pur­chase third-party soft­ware solu­tions to main­tain the per­for­mance of my Win­dows install, the entire expe­ri­ence was grow­ing tiresome.

So, one day, I was try­ing to install my RAID con­troller in Win­dows XP, for what­ever rea­son, XP wouldn’t install it, although I’ve had it installed in the past.  At the same time, I received an invi­ta­tion from Microsoft to down­load and test Win­dows 7.  So I thought, why not, Win­dows 7 looks great, I’ll give it a try.  I installed it and even in BETA it installed flaw­lessly.  It found and installed all the hard­ware (includ­ing my RAID con­troller) and I was off to the races.  It was faster, it was smoother, I was a happy camper!

Then 2 weeks into using, a pop up read that my BETA ver­sion was about to expire, even though my invi­ta­tion from Microsoft read it wouldn’t expire for MONTHS.  I thought to myself, this is just a bug, it’s not seri­ous.  Oh no, it was seri­ous, the con­se­quence was I couldn’t run Win­dows 7 for longer than 2-hours with­out restart­ing.  To make mat­ters worse, I couldn’t even pur­chase Win­dows 7 yet, it hadn’t been released for sale yet!  So, I had a deci­sion, go BACK to Win­dows XP, try some­thing new like Linux or buy a Mac…

Well, I love Mac’s — I actu­ally have one of the orig­i­nal Tita­nium G4’s in my closet.  But, I’ve also been intrigued with Linux.  So, I did my research and dis­cov­ered that Ubuntu Linux is one of the most friendly dis­tros so I down­loaded it, installed it, and I’ve been run­ning with it ever since.

I’ve learned quite a bit and this web­site is to help oth­ers make the tran­si­tion to Linux or at the very least, learn more about Linux.