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Windows User Experiments With Linux for 10 Days

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the user-gets-a-gnu-perspective dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Clarence Ladson over at Flexbeta decided to kick Windows to the curb for 10 days in an experiment to find out just how hard it would be to 'quit cold turkey' and move entirely to Linux. It's amazing how many day-to-day operations require the inadvertent use of Windows in our daily lives."

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  1. Re:Coral link by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    That is just a cache of the first page.
    The google cache of the full article (printable version) is available here

  2. Re:I kicked Windows to the Curb, too! by danharan · · Score: 5, Informative

    MS Office still breaks a lot of MS Office documents.

    Choose your poison

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  3. Even better link... by Kamiza+Ikioi · · Score: 5, Informative

    Read Entire Story here

    This link has entire story cache'd, and looks more like original site. Enjoy.

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  4. And the other big myth: by Hosiah · · Score: 5, Informative
    The biggest myth of all: Windows is easy to learn and use.

    Oh, yeah? Tell me, Windows loyalists, did you ever get Outlook Express to understand the concept of multiple email accounts and different stationary/spam filters for each? Figure out how to stop Windows from dumping icons all over the screen? Get rid of the MS Network and Network Neighborhood because you never use it? Get Windows to recognise your new graphics card without a struggle? Stop Real Player from firing up at startup and immediately demanding your whole machine's resources? Completely remove software you uninstall, without having to go in and manually delete folders? Confess to you where it hides ALL the cookies and let you clean them ALL out? Not show the taskbar?

    Yes, I'm sure everybody's done some of what's on this list... but you weren't born knowing how? Right? You had to...guess what?...READ some DOCUMENTATION to learn how to make it do what you want! After all, if Windows is just SO-O-O-O silly easy, why were manuals written about it "for Dummies" flying off the bookstore shelves from 1985 to 1995 or so? Why would people need things simplified to the "Dummies" level if it were as simple as could be, already?

    Linux comes with it's own "for Dummies" docs, free. Man pages, info pages, html docbooks, et cettera ad infinitum. Just have a gander through /usr/share/doc and you learn everything in Linux just like the "for Dummies" books in Windows!