Back when I got my first PC at 2004, there were practically no use of it for my school educations and lack of internet meant I couldn’t do something more than playing games, listening to songs, watching movies and creating documents/spreadsheets for dad and occasionally printing them. Being immensely attracted to PCs at that time, I spent a lot of time customizing Windows at first. Subsequently, I had my first hands-on with Linux and at some point of 2005/06, switched to Linux as my primary OS. But the important point here is that switching to Linux wasn’t catalyzed by open source philosophy, rather by my own inquisitiveness of trying new things out. Along came Windows Vista, in 2007, and I switched back to it. Well, people can still raise their eyebrows and criticize Vista and my ass for changing to it but I don’t give a damn. It worked for me for one and half years, and again it was time for swapping OS. January 2009 gave us Windows 7 Beta, officially (not talking about guys who got it a month ago via torrent sites) and it started my tryst with Windows 7 which is still going strong. Also in the meantime I tinkered with OS X on my PC, namely Hackintosh. Continue reading →