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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:Myth TV? by twicesliced · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Anand of AnandTech's experience with Tiger.

  2. moderation by DogDude · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    "-1 Flamebait": Because it's true. I need to find a new place to slum it online.

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  3. but they can't serve web pages... by b17bmbr · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Linux Apache/1.3.29 Unix mod_auth_passthrough/1.8 mod_log_bytes/1.2 mod_bwlimited/1.4 PHP/4.3.3 FrontPage/5.0.2.2634 mod_ssl/2.8.16 OpenSSL/0.9.7a

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  4. I've only gotten as far as the first page... by ZenShadow · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    ...but what rock did this guy crawl out from under?

    Not surprisingly, millions of people and corporations are making the switch to Linux or another variant of Unix to save costs or maybe cut their chances of having to resort to piracy to continue to operate but from what we hear daily Microsoft and the news is that Linux doesn't seem to be any less expensive than the Windows platform and for some could limit the very things that they used to take for granted.


    That may look like a paragraph, but it's actually just one little sentence... ...and a painful one to read, at that.

    What happened to people being taught to at least write *passable* English? I'm no grammar nazi, but this article is awful.

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