All,
Having been on the `Net for nearly 15yrs, and I never caught a virus...
until the other night. I knew the second it happened. I was suckered in
to clicking on something I shouldn't have. I was Trojan'd. As I
performed the cleanup, I reevaluated my workstation in general. I was
time for a new one. But, if I buy a new PC, will I buy one with Vista
(not ready, time consuming) or XP (days are numbered) ? Or something
else ?
For years I have been getting flack from people about moving to a Mac
or putting Linux on my desktop. "Mike your so in to Unix, why don't you
get a Mac or use Linux on your PC ?" For years I have not been able to
do it and be able to conduct business the way I needed to. I was bound
to applications that only ran on Windows (MS Project, Visio, Groove,
various VPN clients, and web-based tools that only worked with IE on
Windows, etc). It wasn't that there weren't other tools that did the
same functions, it was that these tools were required to collaborate
with the other Windows users I did business with.
Several months ago, I stopped working for a large defense contractor
where most of those applications were required. Business with M5Hosting
has been brisk to say the least. I didn't have time to upgrade my OS and
make all the changes that come with it. No time for Vista, no time for
Mac, and no time for Linux.
My office PC is getting old. The virus was a disruptive event that
caused me to stop and look at what I am doing. After careful evaluation
and years in anticipation by many....
I am now using Ubuntu on my PC !!! I know that's not earth shattering
in and of itself, but there are two things that I find interesting:
1) Given the requirements of being my desktop and running my business
from it (respecting the goals of profit and productivity), I chose a
Linux system.
2) It has been SO EASY !!! Printers, email, browser plugins, HTML
editor, accessing the existing file server, handling video media,
workign with my dual 24in widescreens. It was all easy. Ubuntu is light
years ahead of my last attempt at using Linux as a productive desktop
for myself.
I have always been more of a RedHat guy than a Debian guy. My previous
desktop attempts were KDE not Gnome. I will have questions for the list.
Cheers,
Mike
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