Well it is justice to justify myself to my future self here. I was a long running Fedora fan when I had to help a friend get acquainted with Linux, so I referred him to Fedora. Then my Fedora broke, and I got tired of the near-Windows speed of a bulky installation. I searched around for alternatives, and decided to give the Ubuntu series a try. I was used to Gnome and KDE, and wanted something faster.
This is where Xubuntu kicked in, and what a kick it is. I already have a reasonably fast laptop, 2.0ghz pentium m, 1 gig ram, 120 gigs of hard disk, 256 mb geforce go graphics and so on, but I did not know how bulky my other installation was. I was also amazed to notice the extensive "out-of-the-box"ness of the Ubuntus.
I was already using Ubuntu Forums extensively before, Google lead me there all the time. But it is when you actually start using the distribution that the community effect becomes obvious. Ubuntu is an example of what online civilian initiative can be. It is like an extensive humanitarian organisation that helps users of a specific type of system. Seriously, I believe that humanitarian organisations' next (maybe current) step is internet, and communities like Ubuntu's are a good example of what people can do just by being "people".
Got to take a test now, to be continued...
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