Linked by Phil Hall on Thu 5th Dec 2002 00:35 UTC
I'm a long-time Windows user, but for years I've been searching for an intelligent alternative. Macs are actually a great choice, but have you priced them lately? I don't have two grand to spend for another system. I had been reading all the hoopla surrounding Xandros Desktop for a number of months and decided to take the plunge. I had been burned two times previously trying to install other Linux distributions. Their tech support was non-existent. I'm essentially working in a vacuum. When something has gone wrong in the past, I've found that I was on my own. 
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Instead of tryng to make Linux look and feel like windows you might be better of just learning how to use a Unix-like system .. Just dump the windows mindset and go for Linux.
You don't seem to understand what I'm saying. There are some applications in the Win32 world with functionality that is currently NOT available on Linux at ALL. It's not a question of having to 'relearn' things, but more like having to completely do without. Of course, if you don't use any of these 'specialty apps' (or 'specialty hardware' for that matter), then you of course will not be affected. But for those of us that do use them, there is still very much a need for Windows (unfortunately).
I know that some people have 'made the jump' and had to sacrifice some functionality/luxuries along the way, I guess mainly because of their dislike of MS. But, IMHO, there is more freedom lost by 'crossing over' than there is gained, or at least there would be for me.