Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 17th Nov 2005 19:29 UTC, submitted by rchapman
"One day, while the boss was away, I shoved a spare hard-drive into my computer and installed Ubuntu 5.04. I managed to work for a month and a half before the Boss noticed I was using Linux - and that was only because he happened to glance at my screen. Half a year later, I am still using Ubuntu (now version 5.10) at work and I am more productive than ever."
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2005-07-06
About a year ago I tried the same thing. I installed Ubuntu 4.10 on a spare box and tried to make it usable. It took a lot of tinkering and I could never make it work correctly. For example, I never got printing to work (over Active Directory) and it was pretty painful to set up network shares. I finally gave up and tried out Xandros version 2. What a difference! I had my network shares mounted in minutes and printing was set up just as quickly. Although I actually prefer the Gnome desktop to KDE, the difference isn't big enough (to me) to worry about. It was great.
Within a couple of weeks, I had switch my main desktop to Xandros 2 Open Circulation Edition and spent maybe 20 minutes a week using Windows (you know, those rarely used proprietary programs) which I now had on a spare box. After a couple of months, I told my boss what I was doing and that I was probably in violation of the Xandros OCE license (since it's for non-commercial use). He agreed that was bad, got me some petty cash, and I went out and purchased Xandros 3 Deluxe which I've been using for the last 8 months or so.
For me, Xandros "just works" and was well worth the $90 price tag.