Laptop. Is. Awesome.

So my laptop comes yesterday.  The warranty is a thick little booklet- which I initially thought was the manual.

The manual was a single page.  It said, "attach battery.  Plug in, as battery may be low.  Turn on.  Enter data in configuration window."

Okay, so it said a LITTLE more than that, but that's all I needed.  I plugged it in, turned it on, told it what time zone I was in, my name and password, and in less than five minutes I was set.  AWESOME.

Oh, and everyone out there who doesn't know how cool Linux is- it's great.  We've never had a virus on our Linux OS, it never randomly freezes or crashes, the times there was a problem a patch has come out within twenty four hours, everything we need to know we can find in online forums.

And want an application?  Go to "Applications."  Scroll down to "Add/remove."  If you want to remove something, you click on "remove existing application."  You want to add something?  Do a search.  For example, there's this gem game I love.  So I search for "gem" in "games."  Five things come up, each rated on a scale.  I choose the highest rated.  It installs.

That's it.  It's THAT easy, I search for and install my game in three minutes, I don't even have to pay for it.

Linux is the stuff, people.

(Of course, I don't need specialized software suites, I primarily word process, I get it...  for my brother the computer programmer Windows is where it's at and for my friend the photographer Mac is where it's at but for me...  I love my Linux.)

A bit of humor:  my Laptop has gOS, which is "Google Operating System".  It's more or less Ubuntu, as it's Ubuntu based.  It just also has Google widgets and Google calender, etc, built in. (screen shots here).  When I googled it originally the text said "gOS- discover a good operating system" so I momentarily thought that it stood for good operating system, since Linux guys like to give their things ridiculous names.  Like, GNU stands for "GNU Not Unix."  Yep, the name is in the acronym of the name.  There are others, I just can't think of them right now.

You can buy laptops running gOS off of Wal-Mart's website.  There are amusing user reviews saying "gOS ISN'T WINDOWS!  THIS IS A LINUX PC!"

OMGWTFBBQ!  Do they not READ?

Oddly enough, the buyers on NewEgg seemed to know what they were getting.

That's all for today.