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I use Firefox as my web browser, usually the 'stable' version, which currently is 2.0.0.11 on my system (although I haven't checked for updates in a good while to be honest) because of its philosophy: Be nothing more than a web browser that can be extended for whatever needs you have. Opera and the Mozilla suit both have feature creep, a.k.a. bloatware tendencies. I run 16 extensions in my Firefox, so I guess you could say it's pretty bloated, but at least those additional features are exactly what I want and nothing more. Though as long as people aren't using Internet Explorer, I'm pleased.
All my systems run Gentoo Linux exclusively. I'm considering merging to Ubuntu to ease maintenance, but the switch is a bit cumbersome, and I've currently not felt like it. I choose to use GNU/Linux because it uses less resources than Windows, is more stable than Windows, it's available entirely free of cost, most, and if you're careful, all the components of the system are free (as in freedom) and are completely configurable and modifiable, and last, it has a lot of features that I've come to miss in Windows, among other things the command line features provided by GNU coreutils, sed, grep, etc. My system is a 1.8 GHz with 512 MB RAM and runs better than most installations of Vista I've seen to this date. I'm sure Vista couldn't even run on this thing or if it could it would just not be bearable.
I have OpenOffice installed, mostly because people keep sending me Word and PowerPoint files, even though I explicitly tell them not to. Every time they do, I send them a lengthy mail about why they shouldn't. Most people get the message eventually.
For writing my own documents and presentations, I use LaTeX (w/Beamer).
For gaming, I have one GNU/Linux machine connected to my TV with a joystick that hosts all NES, SNES, Genesis, Gameboy, GBColor and GBAdvance games ever released (and not released) for playing them ol' classics, and I have my Playstation 1, 2 and 3 for more modern gaming pursuits. I've hardly ever played games on a computer.
All my systems run Gentoo Linux exclusively. I'm considering merging to Ubuntu to ease maintenance, but the switch is a bit cumbersome, and I've currently not felt like it. I choose to use GNU/Linux because it uses less resources than Windows, is more stable than Windows, it's available entirely free of cost, most, and if you're careful, all the components of the system are free (as in freedom) and are completely configurable and modifiable, and last, it has a lot of features that I've come to miss in Windows, among other things the command line features provided by GNU coreutils, sed, grep, etc. My system is a 1.8 GHz with 512 MB RAM and runs better than most installations of Vista I've seen to this date. I'm sure Vista couldn't even run on this thing or if it could it would just not be bearable.
I have OpenOffice installed, mostly because people keep sending me Word and PowerPoint files, even though I explicitly tell them not to. Every time they do, I send them a lengthy mail about why they shouldn't. Most people get the message eventually.
For writing my own documents and presentations, I use LaTeX (w/Beamer).For gaming, I have one GNU/Linux machine connected to my TV with a joystick that hosts all NES, SNES, Genesis, Gameboy, GBColor and GBAdvance games ever released (and not released) for playing them ol' classics, and I have my Playstation 1, 2 and 3 for more modern gaming pursuits. I've hardly ever played games on a computer.
