Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 15th May 2006 20:02 UTC, submitted by J.R. Smith
"Can the ordinary computer user ditch Windows for Linux? The question came up when I decided that my six-year-old version of Microsoft's Windows operating system had to be replaced. My Sony Vaio computer was still too young for the trash heap. And I was hesitant to spend $200 on the Windows XP operating system, especially with Microsoft planning to launch XP's replacement, Vista, in January. So, I decided to give the operating systems that run on Linux technology a try."
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2005-07-23
... but a great article nonetheless. I am very happy to see that this guy was open-minded, pretty objective and did a lot of research. I feel some things were missing from the article though, and I sent him an email. Namely:
- the list of the distros (he mentions a few of them, but not all six if I'm not mistaken)
- the version numbers (yes it's important... OpenOffice2's office format support cannot be compared to the 1.x series)
- the age and model of his laptop
Yes, all technical details, but without them, I'm kind of left nowhere to be able to determine the possible causes of his problems.