I Am About To Ditch Windows Completely

Few days ago it was Google – today it is Microsoft. I have been running Ubuntu on my PCs for a few months. On my desktop Ubuntu is the only OS, however my laptop currently can run Windows and two versions of Ubuntu.

The only reason I was hanging onto Windows was the Widnows Movie Maker. However today or maybe yesterday, Microsoft did something that pushed my patience to its limit. Evidently the most recent Microfots update pack screwed the GRUB and I am no longer able to choose my OS on startup. I am sure there is a way to correct this but instead I went on and tried to take a closer look at Kino– the Linux video editor.

What I have discovered surprised me:

  1. Kino is as good as the Microsoft Movie Maker. Actually it may be even better.
  2. Kino integrates perfectly with Blip.tv.

Bye bye Windows!

Update: After writing this post I came across Dan Dennedy’s Blog– a must read blog if you have chosen Kino as your video editing software.

32 thoughts on “I Am About To Ditch Windows Completely”

  1. oh yea I forgot Fire Fox is the greatest OS too. it never has issues…

    …and I got some land in Arizona you may be interested in…

  2. It’s not Fire Fox, it’s Firefox, and it’s not an OS, it’s a browser.

    Nor do I doubt you got taken for a ride buying Arizona beach front property.

  5. Good to hear. I’ve been trying to come up with a linux alternative to Adobe Premiere and then I can finally ditch the windows partition on my families computer.

    By the way, if you want to fix grub just boot a live cd, mount your root partition and go in a command line and execute

    sudo grub-install –root-directory=(mount point of root partition) /dev/(harddrive to install grub to)

    Then just make sure the boot flag is turned on on your root partition (you can do this easily with parted or gparted).

  6. After an unhappy marriage of around 10 years, I left Windows a year ago.

    I’m using OpenSuse Linux 10.3, best thing I ever did. I can do *everything* on Linux that I did on Windows.

    I cannot believe that a company like Microsoft is allowed to peddle sub standard software like Vista to the world wide public.

    Check out my site.

    http://www.vistaisrubbish.com

  8. I did not really like the movie maker, but I was holding to it because I could not find better counterpart in Linux. KinoDV is a great piece of software but it can take time before you can figure out how to do certain things with it.

  10. I did not really like the movie maker, but I was holding to it because I could not find better counterpart in Linux. KinoDV is a great piece of software but it can take time before you can figure out how to do certain things with it.

  11. Good job.

    I ditched Windows for SuSE linux… haven't looked back, way more satisfied, and the amount of software widely available is more than I expected.

  12. Interesting that you have commented on this post today. Tried to
    install Kubuntu on my laptop today- did not care about it and now the
    only way to get rid of it is to reinstall the Ubuntu from scratch.

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