Planetary Ponderings

As you might have read in my previous blog post, my computer died the other day, and I've been going through the process of geting new hardware.

On Wednesday evening I searched through the product listings on the sites of local computer dealers, and on Thursday I placed my order for a new motherboard, graphics card, case (with PSU) and processor (my existing hard drive was quite new, and the motherboard contains all the other things like LAN and sound card).

On Friday morning I was as excited as a child at Christmas. This was the day my hardware was to arrive. Which it did. That afternoon when I got home, I went about putting everything together.

After I had assembled the computer, hard drive plugged in, I booted up and waited in eager anticipation for my "new" computer to show it's face. I was also expecting to run into a few minor blips along the way.

Nothing happened.

Wait, let me rephrase that: Nothing bad happened.

My computer just booted up as per usual, as though it had always been using this new hardware. Sure, I'm running a 32-bit kernel on my new 64-bit processor, but that didn't bother Linux. It didn't bother linx that I had a new sound card and a new network card either. It just worked.

I was impressed. I mean, I had half expected that to happen (and I had sincerely hoped it would), but when it did happen I was still incredibly impressed. Hannah was also impressed that Amarok just continued from the where it had left off when my PC previously had shutdown, in the middle of a song.

So, as per my title (which I got from Rob Miller's Linux.com article), Linux is boring. No problems, no hitches, it just works.