I have moved 100% to Ubuntu. The only Windows I do is remote desktop into an XP machine and use Virtual Box for virtual Windows 7 and Vista for testing. I find Ubuntu to be everything Bill Gates wanted Windows to be. They seemed to be listening. Gimp, Open Office, Thunderbird, Firefox & Python have been excellent for me - and all of my customers are Windows and don't know I'm not using Windows. I even got my technically challenged CPA to start using Open Office. You may have seen my thread about having my HP printer/scanner working great under Ubuntu but not under Windows.
I *TOTALLY* agree with Ed's assessment of the situation. I can't believe anyone would prefer Office over Open Office, or Internet Explorer over Firefox, or Outlook over the post office. After using Linux for about a year now I can't believe anyone would prefer Windows anything over Linux or Mac. Of course your mileage may very. And I want to thank Whil Hentzen again for encouraging us to look outside of the Window. Get it? Jeff --------------- Jeff Johnson [email protected] (623) 582-0323 www.san-dc.com On 02/16/2011 02:11 PM, Ed Leafe wrote: > On Feb 16, 2011, at 4:02 PM, Stephen Russell wrote: > >> We were just discussing the value of Linux and I found this via twitter >> today. >> >> <http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/No-more-desktop-Linux-systems-in-the-German-Foreign-Office-1191122.html> >> >> "Users have, it claims, also complained of missing functionality, a >> lack of usability and poor interoperability." > It'll be interesting to see what comes of this. There have been a few > other cases of prominent switches back to Windows, and in every case there > was a Microsoft sales and legal push at the top that was the source of the > change, rather than the alleged user complaints. > > > -- Ed Leafe > > > > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
