The big discussion of Linux over the past 24+ hours has me wondering: What operating environment(s) do other members of this list use at home and at work? What factors influence the choice?
To set the tone, here are my answers: • I am retired so "at work" is not applicable • At home we have a desktop dual boot Windows XP (and Ubuntu Linux) computer, a laptop dual boot Kubuntu Linux (and pre-installed Windows Vista) computer and several other laptop, desktop, and dedicated server (Ubuntu Linux based) computers. I also have Android Lollipop, Android Kit Kat, and Android Jelly Bean tablets and phones. I have nothing from Apple. • Windows XP is used primarily for single player gaming and e-Sword Bible software though it also is used to run LO, FireFox and Pegasus Mail (proprietary though free of cost). • Kubuntu Linux is my general purpose "go to" environment. My first Linux system used what I believe was the penultimate marketed version from SuSE before the first release of Open SuSE. I liked the flexibility that was inherent in the KDE desktop environment and found the UI to be quite similar to that of Windows at the time. I have briefly tried Gnome and Unity desktop environments but KDE is my personal first choice. • If I had a tablet computer that I thought could support my Linux usage it, too, would run Kubuntu Linux, LO, etc. • Apple equipment is too expensive for me and from what I've heard about the company's software policies, they are too restrictive to suit me. • Dual boot capabilities are seldom used to deviate from the above information. • The BSODs on Windows influenced my initial adoption of Linux. -- Jim -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
