Hello world

I'd like to pretend that I'm doing something important here; something that will cause people to stand up and take notice of...well, whatever.

But, as you can plainly see, that's not what I'm doing.

I've started this blog in order to chronicle my switch from Windows to Linux as my primary desktop operating system at home.  I've been a Windows user since 1996, when I was first introduced to Windows 3.1 - previously, all my computer experience had been with IBM DOS machines, the Apple IIe, and the classic Commodore 64 (admittedly, that's going back quite a way).

Switching from one operating system to another doesn't really sound like a big deal, and in my case it isn't. I work in IT; I'm a desktop support technician at a college.  I have an A+, I have some Microsoft certification, I have some experience.  I can handle Linux, right?