I no longer need to use any Windows software, when I first made the switch, I was constantly using VMware and wine, on my newest install, I don’t even have them installed!

After a while (about a month) you get completely used to it.

1: really really poor Adobe products support. I make my living with Dreamweaver, Photoshop, etc. There is, at this point, no completely working solution ported to Linux.

2: I really really like EA games’ Battlefield series. No way in hell with this work on my system. (AMD X4000, 2 gigs ram, 1/2 TB storage, nVidia 7900) and Cedega ? I get so tired of having to pay, pay, pay and I’m not even gaming online, I setup my own LAN locally.

XP is actually a very stable o/s at this point. And, when your video settings are wrong, you can at least boot to safe-mode GUI to fix it in Windows.

Dual-booting sux as does running two systems at the same time, and VM doesn’t cut it either.

Get these couple of issues fixed, and you’ll have way more Linux converts, because I’d be the one locally to be pushing it to my clients.

Scotty,

You must be looking in the wrong place. There’s _far_ more documentation and help available for Linux than MS Windows. For starters, call a real person at your local Linux Users Group. (Found at linux.org perhaps.) Or get help on the IRC channel for your distro. Or search the mailing list archives for your distro or for the program you need help with. Or read the books at the Linux Documentation Project, etc, etc. With Linux you can even get help directly from the people who actually wrote the program. It doesn’t get better than that.

I like Linux but can’t switch because my job depends on .NET and I’m not too proficient with Mono. It’d be great that Microsoft released their own verion of the .NET Framework for Linux.

I also can’t switch because I rely on VisualStudio and haven’t found an OSS alternative that’s sufficient.

I’m not trying to reflect accurately the time that has passed, I’m paying homage to an old saying.

See? Like “You really screwed the pooch!”

Now how many of you are gonna chime in with how that’s illegal in most states? It’s a *saying*.

Find another hobby, something other than being angry over words on websites.

Second, to be very correct the system should really be called GNU – Linux is one of possible kernels upon which this system runs. That’s for politically correct peeps out there.

Third, it’s all more than that. Just see “The Codebreakers – A BBC World Documentary on FOSS and Development”:
http://www.apdip.net/news/fossdoc

Then come back to think about bridging the digital divide between “the rich countries” and developing world. GNU/Linux is just one, but important part in grand scheme of things.

For a relative linux n00b like me, there is no way that I can totally let go of the security blanket of another running machine in the house or at least a Knoppix Live CD. I will break stuff and need to get to the forums to try and find a solution.

This brings up another point, documentation. Don’t expect a vast knowledgebase like Microsoft has with thousands of paid people publishing to it on a daily basis.

Using a Windows PC again irritates the hell out of me now what with the constant nagging from windows update and the constant virus alerts and the lockups and so on.

I can honestly say that I don’t miss a thing about Windows.

I do however have to run a few applications for work in a VM but this is painless and as you quite rightly say, you can kill it as soon as you are fed up with it.

For anyone who is considering a change, spend more time with Linux each day and you will never regret it.

Regarding point #5, if for some strange reason you have to rebuild your machine, or switch to another machine, all you really need to do is copy over your home directory, and your new settings will be inherited. Awesome!

Also, to grab a list of all installed programs, you can use “dpkg –get-selection > installedfiles”, and then on your new machine you can do “cat installedfiles | dpkg –set-selection; apt-get dselect-upgrade” as root to download all these programs.

Glad you’re enjoying Linux like the rest of us

P. S. I never reboot my Linux machine “just because”, just hibernate it then restore and keep using it. It runs for monthes in such mode.

http://www.arsgeek.com/?p=1391
So arsgeek has made a post about using Linux full time… in a dual boot situation. Now I am all for people making the switch to Linux from windows or OSX or whatever they came from, however if they are going to write…

2. putty and have have your heard about shortcuts (alias) ? __PATH_TO_PUTTY -load “YOUR_SESSION”. And yopu don’t have to even open terminal or type anything!

P.S. since I have installed XP at home and got laptop with it, I only have one crash with was coast by my experimentation…
agee with testy on this … don’t buy crap!

Anyway, it’ll take some time for Linux to get more popular, but when it does, I hope that Windows dies the slow death that it so richly deserves.