Beautify Your Computer with Linux

I have always wondered why more people don't use Linux on their computers. Window's viruses, adaware and spyware don't work on Linux, so they aren't an issue. For most software, there are actually more choices in Linux. And it's free, most of the time. So why don't more people use it?

Maybe it's due to that old school myth that Linux is all command line, hard to use, blah, blah, blah. Let's dispel that myth right now through this article.

Using a Puppy Linux livecd I wrote this entire article. I used a Windows computer, put in this cd, didn't install anything, started the computer, ran it all from the cd, wrote the article, then was finished, with no trace that Linux had ever been on this computer. I mention this to illustrate that you can try out Linux before you install it, no risk.

Linux is hard to use? Well, it can be, but Puppy Linux is amazingly simple. It found everything on this computer, drivers already included, flat screen monitor, 64bit processor, whatever. DVD drive, cd writer, external hard drive, Puppy found it without effort.

In order to set something up in Puppy, just right click anywhere on the desktop and you have a full featured menu. Or, if you just have to go by Window's format, you can go to the bottom left corner of the screen and click on the menu there and get the same menu.

From the menu you can surf on the internet, write articles, check out videos, listen to music, play some games, whatever. Just a few clicks.

But this article is more about how easy it is to let Linux look like you want it to.

With Windows (especially with XP) you usually needed to buy software to change the look of your desktop. Either that or you had to do some investigating and figure out how to set up some of the free software on your system that could make Windows look like you wanted it to.

Vista is a little different in that Windows has finally taken eye-candy into account when setting up their operating system. Unfortunately, Vista relies too much on computer power to get the job done.