After an inexcusable hiatus I am going back on my Windows hunger strike.  As I type I am downloading the Fedora 10 ISO and making preparations for my switch.

With a little luck I won’t get sidetracked like I did last time.  I believe the fundamental flaw I made last time was that I was using two computers.  I installed Fedora on one laptop and continued to run Vista on another (yes, I know I could have dual booted).  This time I am going to try something even more difficult; I am going to run Fedora in a virtual machine using VMWare and Vista as the host OS.  This is going to be difficult because I am going to have to fight the urge to simply minimize Fedora and do things in Windows.  I shall resist!!!  I am going to run Fedora in full-screen mode and attempt to forget what lies underneath.

Wish me success.  I gave up cigarettes more than ten years ago and have never looked back.  Can I do the same with Windows?  Can I really use Fedora as my day-to-day desktop OS?  Is it possible?  Do I want to?  Is it worth it?  Will I still be productive (if what I do most days can even be called that)?  I don’t know the answers to these questions but I am going to find out.  I’m not new to Linux, not by a long shot.  I have been using it for years but only for random purposes here and there.  Every time I have tried to use it as a desktop OS I have failed and scurried back to the comfort of Windows.  In the words of Mr. Mercury:  I want to break free!

Here goes…