Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 8th Nov 2005 19:08 UTC, submitted by LinuxFanBoy
It's that time again, folks. "I realize the title might mislead you to believe that I've been trapped in a dank, dark underground dungeon for a year. In reality, though, I have been without Microsoft Windows for over a year. On November 1 of last year I blew away my old Windows 98/SUSE Linux 8.0 Professional dual-boot installation, and loaded SUSE Linux 9.2 Professional, by itself, on my box. While I know others have been Windows-free for much longer than a year, others simply cannot imagine doing without it. Here's my experience." Be gentle.
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This is a good story about a home migration. It starts with a SUSE dual boot. Which is how I started.
Two sugggestions for starting migration in an office environment:
First, Make Firefox available as an alternate browser. Use should be entirely voluntary for starters.
Second, In those environments (i.e. users of old versions of WP) where Word is not used and you have to use those abominations Word Viewer and Excel Viewer to read MS applications, install openoffice.org and allow it to replace Word Viewer and Excel Viewer. This will increase productivity. If you have a computer with MS Works the addition of openoffice.org is also something that should be done.
These two steps may seem like no brainers, but they are not being done in a lot of environments. If done they will allow people to get used to the two primary open source applications in a nonthreatening manner. After that, people will be familiar with this stuff and it will only be a matter of time.