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Windows User Experiments With Linux for 10 Days
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."
Hooters!
I've said this for about 7-10 years now ...
If you wanna play games, go get a console. Computers are for serious work.
Besides, Solitaire runs just fine under Wine, not speaking of the countless clones.
Screw the FSM - Real geeks believe in the Invisible Pink Unicorn
But who cares? If you have even the slightest interest in living without Windows for ten days then you've already done it. If you can't figure out how to do it without accidentally using Windows somehow then you have no business reading Slashdot.
That pretty much sums it up.
Appended to the end of comments you post. 120 chars.
No, this idea does not make sense. Schools are not places for "exposing" students to whatever whacky idea is current or inflicting suptle propaganda on them.
Schools are places for teaching. Students should not be playing with computers, they should be doing multiplication tables and studying maps and stuff like that. If you want to teach a vocational elective on computer use in high school, that's fine as long as it is after regular hours.
In most of America our school system sucks. I don't pay property tax so you can jack around with stupid little Gates/Torvalds fan boy contests.
'Linux' is simply not adequate for desktop users and will be dead soon. Read on..
I am a CS student, use Linux exclusively in university and have a triple boot linux config at home (xp, win server 2003, linux - fedora core). 1 day ago, I had to re-install Linux because I had forgotten my username/password. But now, even though my dsl is connected to the internet, i still can't surf because i need to 'configure' some stuff (pppoe). And hey, i don't have ethernet ! So i am screwed. Previously i had AOL and couldn't connect to it as well (on Linux). So, even though the Linux and Windows environments are almost comparable, i still have major problems connecting to the internet in Linux.
And when Windows Vista rolls out, it would be the end for Mac and Linux because so far I haven't seen any effort to have a XAML-Avalon-Indigo type of thing on these OS. User centric apps would look better, perform better and will be simply more powerful on Vista.
It's like, why would you fly across the atlantic in a twin-seater in the age of boeing 747 ? Sure, both work, but one is more comfortable than the other.
Goodbye (Desktop) Linux, you seem to be too little, too late. [Server Linux will still be around and probably grow massively]
I tried to use Linux but as soon as I booted the knoppix cd an instant message window popped up demanding $5000 for trademark infringement. I took the knoppix cd out and literally broke it in two. Never again!
Truth is, Microsoft writes some of the best software around, that is very stable and works predictably on numerous different types of hardware and in numerous different conditions.
Even organizations that do produce superior software than Microsoft in some situations usually do so at the cost of ignoring many other situations that Microsoft does not ignore.
I really don't think that anyone else will come out with a better version of any of Microsoft's core products any time soon.
Whoever corrects a mocker invites insult;
whoever rebukes a wicked man incurs abuse.
--Proverbs 9:7
An Operating System should be: functional designed in the best interests of the developers and users free(remember, an OS is only supposed to be the middle man between your applications and your hardware) secure
An OS should be free? Really? Where did you come up with that wacky idea? I personally think that cars should be free. It doesn't mean it's going to happen. It also doesn't mean that I'm not delusional.
I don't respond to AC's.
"The whole netscape versus internet explorer thign would have had a different light on it if IE was offered as a download or optional instalation package" So tell me how you're supposed to download the alternative if you don't have a browser in the first place? When was the last time any linux distro didn't include some sort of (even text based) browser? MS had to include something, so why not pimp their own product?
Microsoft acts like a business, talkes like a business, even tastes like a business, but most of us expect it to be something else.
Microsoft.....a business, noooo....Your lieing.
I will probably get Troll for this, but im sick of a fair portion of people on slashdot using words so strong as hate for a company, and always expecting a multinational corperation to act like something other then a business in a market economy.
I'll get troll for this, and it has been said before. But people....Microsoft is a business, a cold heartless business but a business none the less, save your hate for those you have hurt you dearly, for microsoft use the power of being a consumer...and dont spout monopoly because we all know linux has viable alterantives for most of their programs.
It's a harsh reality, i know, and i know someone here will have an allwise +5 insightful and witty comeback....but its just life.
Intellectual monopoly rights should not exist. They damage the economy and hinder the creation of wealth for society, and as such they should not be tolerated any more than vandalism as a method to generate turnover.