Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 22nd Oct 2007 09:08 UTC, submitted by Dan Warne
APCMag has a lenghty article on switching from Windows to Ubuntu. "When I was first given this task I had to sit and blink a few times, if for nothing else than dramatic pause. I'm a self-confessed Linux nut, as some of you may know, but even I'm cautious to do away with Windows completely. There's a reason I have a dual-boot Windows and Linux machine. Several of them, in fact. But have I just been conditioned into using Windows because of past experience, or applications, or file formats, or the myriad other reasons that make Windows a comfort zone because it's all so familiar?"
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2005-06-29
Alright, I see you're a power user. I never heard of all these features. I do know about the virtual desktop stuff but I never use it because my computer is low on RAM and so I use at most 2-3 applications. Most of the time I use only one application at a time, or my computer gets too slow. I don't use taskbar applets, not to pollute my desktop. Windows Explorer does have previews, both as thumbnails and in the left bar. You also have themes in Windows Explorer (I remember seeing Vista themes in Windows XP). SFTP support in Windows Explorer would be cool. In the meantime I use WinSCP.