Why Linux slideshow

1. Windows to Linux
● How an ex-Microsoftie made the switch
● After 11 years programming
● I forgot more about Windows than most ever
learn
● Now uses Linux 100%
● Do you realize the benefits?
Keith Curtis
http://keithcu.com

2. Why not Mac?
● Lenovo is a better deal and better machine
● Apple laptop keyboards suck and mice
have one button
● Keystrokes are unlike Lin/Win
● The Mac OS is proprietary
● Depend on a free kernel now
● Yet they don't understand it
● DRM, appstore policies, etc.

3. Experimenting
● If you made it to instructables.com, you
can install Linux
● Start anywhere...
● Use Firefox, OpenOffice, GIMP, Audacity,
Python, etc. on current OS
● I started with dual-boot
● I've reinstalled many times till I found
what I liked

4. Ubuntu
● Download an Ubuntu Live CD and install
it
●

5. Partitions
● If you have tons of space, no problem
● Otherwise, do some planning
● Create a Linux partition big enough to hold your
data
● You will move it over eventually
● Put system and home directory on separate
partitions
● Let's you easily wipe the OS
● Can dual boot or use VirtualBox-type VMs
● Faster / more reliable to dual-boot

6. Biggest Linux benefit:

7. Free Software
● 1,000s of applications
● Apple / Microsoft will never have this
● Built by a million-man army
● Army grows one person at a time
● Each project is gaining steam
● Linux is a Ferrari: Incredible power but
still missing cupholders

8. Blender

9. Blender issues
● The UI is considered time-consuming to learn
● But the power is amazing
● In a program as complicated as Blender, learning the UI
will not hold you up
● Look at the complexity of the UI for a Boeing cockpit
● Several great tutorials
● Blender uses the free language Python, the free physics
engine Bullet, etc.
● Use free software so you can join the community

10. Python

11. Python
● Python has the richest set of class
libraries for all aspects of computing
● There are multiple workaround for the
perf issues

12. What can you do?
● Donate $ or time for faster progress
● Every group needs programmers
● Don't need to join Microsoft to learn
about your computer

13. The Future
● The key to cars that drive us around is
more free software
● There are enough programmers today,
but they are not working together
●
About to enter a 21st century renaissance
● Read my (free!) book to learn more:
http://keithcu.com/SoftwareWars