First post - what for?

The idea of starting blog researching on Linux usage by normal people sparkled after I desperately tried to replace Vista on something else. The reason is not that I don´t like Microsoft, no. The problem is Windows itself.

I remember the times when I used to have Celeron 433Mhz with win98 on it. Now I´ve got double core AMD 2.0 Ghz. I feel no difference basicaly. Of course I can run cooler programs and stuff, but, for example, Explorer opens the same as it was on Celeron in good old days. Search is the same slow. System is unresponsive quite often. Not to say that it is quite ugly, when it comes to interface, though, it´s not my primary concern. My concern that the hardware is getting better and more powerfull everyday, but creators of Win loads those resources so I can feel no power surplus.

Note, I don´t not care about common belief that MS is evil (and Mac is white and fluffy) and Linux rules. No. Linux at the current stage still something that my mom wouldn´t be able to use. It is not user-friendly! MacOS is a great one, but restricted to hardware (long live hackintosh!). I wanna Linux be as fast as it can be, and is simple as Windows.

The only problem that computer guys thinks of other user as of dumb users who are just lazy to learn what are disk partitions, network interface, dhcp, pop3, smtp, ftp, http and other ***p. They wanna send photos, emails, listen to music, watch mouvies, connect to wifi withought finding out what drivers are.

In this blog I will try to share my experience of installing different Linuxes on my average laptop Acer 5522. And I will try to evaluate them from simple user point of view, which I believe I am still to some extent.

You are free to share your experiences and observations. Just be constructive. I´m not Linux evangelist. I´m am the Other system believer. Eventually I hope the info I will collect here will help to Linux distros developers understand what the priorities are.