100% Linux - Is it possible?
Robin Laing
Robin.Laing at drdc-rddc.gc.ca
Thu Feb 3 16:36:21 UTC 2005
Goose Gosswiller wrote:
> Pete Choppin <pchoppin <at> comcast.net> writes:
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>>I was just looking for a consensus on this...
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>>I have been working with Fedora Core 3 for the past month. My new years
>
> resolution was to learn Linux. So far, so good.
>
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>>I created a dual-boot Fedora / Windows XP. I am now seriously considering
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> going completely 100% Linux and dumping my Windows partition entirely.
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>>The question is - can you live completely without Windows, or do you sooner or
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> later have to resort to Windows again?
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>>--
>>Pete
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> You can do without windows but it really depends on what you are doing.
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> I've been M$ free at home for some time, however, my wife refuses to use the
> Linux machine. It's a prejudice based on what she is used to -- we all are
> aflicted by it to some extent. As an example, Firefox and Thunderbird. Because
> they run on Linux they must suck, so there is resistance to even look (though,
> once I hid the IE icon from the desktop.....). Some of us welcome change, some
> don't. (I use Firefox and Thunderbird exclusively -- if I find an eCommerce
> site that seems to require IE for their forms, I notify the vendor and I find a
> competitor to do business with.)
> The bottom line is you have to evaluate what you are doing and ensure that you
> can continue to do it without windows.
> I've found that on the homefront there is nothing I need to do that requires
> windows.....I may have to install a package or an update, but I can always get
> it done.
> The workplace -- that is a different subject alltogether.....
>
> cheers
> goose
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>
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>
Reading this shows a contrast. My wife wouldn't even let me install
dual boot Linux Windows on our new computer. Nor could I look at a
Mac. Linux fully in our house since 1999 July when we dumped OS/2.
I do have a p90 with windows 95 stored in the basement.
At work I only use Linux and have been totally linux since last
August. In all cases I have found a Linux program that will do what I
need. I do have one issue with Autocad files but again I have found
solutions.
I do have two programs that I need windows for at home but I need to
get a > win98 version to run them and I just cannot be bothered. They
are both for Free To Air Satellite TV.
Even my 8yr old is using Linux at home with no problems.
--
Robin Laing
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