Hello All, Thanks for the comments ( 2 here and 1 by mail ), I hope I would be able to come up with content worth reading by you. Getting on with my Setting Yourself free series, I bring you the second part of the journey I went towards freedom.
As I told, I started it with the removal of Windows XP. After this the foremost thing that was required was the development of belief that "Yes, freewares can do it for me", every now and then when you will not be able to get a freeware replacements of the s
oftwares you love, or you wont just get the feel out of that, you will be tempted to divert away from this path, but believe me the situation is getting rosier for people like us - the freeware freaks. This step of making up my mind took a little longer then what I expected. SO dont worry, give yourself a lot of time, days, months or whatever, just keep in mind that you are on the right track. Yeas, 1 thing important here is that, in this period you are allowed to use the pay-me softwares ( or their pirated versions, the way you were, before setting on to the path ). And be prepared to face the teasers of those, who you have told that you are "setting yourself free" and then they tease you like "Oh! So whatever happened to your GOING FREE plan, is it over, huh??"
Then the next thing for me was going away from the pirated version of Norton Internet security or Kaspersky Antivirus ( two of the most preferred of the lot, trial version successfully cracked by the mates ) and then switching to a free antivirus, like AVG-Free or Avast! Home Edition, or go a step further, hug FOSS (??) and use Clamwin, and bear ( or enjoy ) with its features. I prefer Avast, just because of its small update size, and because of its boot-time scan that removed most of the malwares already there in my system. Believe me you have covered a considerable part of the journey just by doing that. Now you should keep it updated with a frequency of your comfort, and DONOT turn it off for whatever reasons.
One thing I would like to mention here is that Though I love using linux, but I am on a break. Yestersem, I realized that though i have used windows, but i dont know any thing about it, and then to gain some knowledge as well as to prove to myself that Windows can be piracy-free too, I am in Windows. Apologies to Mr. Linu(x/s) and to those who would like to see more linux stuff in a FOSS blog.
As I told, I started it with the removal of Windows XP. After this the foremost thing that was required was the development of belief that "Yes, freewares can do it for me", every now and then when you will not be able to get a freeware replacements of the s
oftwares you love, or you wont just get the feel out of that, you will be tempted to divert away from this path, but believe me the situation is getting rosier for people like us - the freeware freaks. This step of making up my mind took a little longer then what I expected. SO dont worry, give yourself a lot of time, days, months or whatever, just keep in mind that you are on the right track. Yeas, 1 thing important here is that, in this period you are allowed to use the pay-me softwares ( or their pirated versions, the way you were, before setting on to the path ). And be prepared to face the teasers of those, who you have told that you are "setting yourself free" and then they tease you like "Oh! So whatever happened to your GOING FREE plan, is it over, huh??"Then the next thing for me was going away from the pirated version of Norton Internet security or Kaspersky Antivirus ( two of the most preferred of the lot, trial version successfully cracked by the mates ) and then switching to a free antivirus, like AVG-Free or Avast! Home Edition, or go a step further, hug FOSS (??) and use Clamwin, and bear ( or enjoy ) with its features. I prefer Avast, just because of its small update size, and because of its boot-time scan that removed most of the malwares already there in my system. Believe me you have covered a considerable part of the journey just by doing that. Now you should keep it updated with a frequency of your comfort, and DONOT turn it off for whatever reasons.
One thing I would like to mention here is that Though I love using linux, but I am on a break. Yestersem, I realized that though i have used windows, but i dont know any thing about it, and then to gain some knowledge as well as to prove to myself that Windows can be piracy-free too, I am in Windows. Apologies to Mr. Linu(x/s) and to those who would like to see more linux stuff in a FOSS blog.
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