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Tales of Conversion - Using Ubuntu at Work

Posted by Zonk on from the sneaky-penguin dept.

madgreek writes "Here is a short story about my switch to Ubuntu from XP at work. I have been Microsoft-free for 3 months now at a Microsoft heavy shop. Few people know I am using Open Office and Linux. I create countless documents that people open using Word, Excel, PPT and nobody can tell that they were created using Open Office. From the article: 'When I first started my experiment I was trying to keep it a secret out of fear of attacks from angry Microsoft worshipers (especially from the admins and desktop support). What I am finding out is that most of the folks that I was hiding from are sick and tired of supporting Windows and are proponents of Linux. Several of them are using Linux at home. One of the guys I talked to has Vista and XP installed on his laptop. He swaps out the hard drive when switching between OS's.'"

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  1. Re:Ubuntu drive partition by h4rr4r · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    If you cannot handle this you should be buying PCs with the OS preinstalled. That is what Linux needs to have a wide user base anyway.

  2. Re:Ubuntu drive partition by Bombula · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    The other responders have done a nice job of rushing to my defense, so I won't bother defending myself except to say that I did indeed use Ubuntu by running it off of the CD, which was very cool. But the reason I don't use Ubuntu is because there was no option to just put the CD in the drive, click 'OK' to the the "Do you want to set up a Dual Boot System?" and come back after making coffee to find everything done except maybe setting the time and the date. In my experience, installing Windows hasn't ever been much more complicated than that.

    For all the linux fanboys out there, It's worth remembering that Linux doesn't just have to be user friendly to use in order to capture market share from M$, it has to be a one-click, no-brains migration process as well. So long as you don't have that, the evidence in the real world speaks for itself about Linux's failed strategy.

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    A-Bomb
  3. Re:Wait wait wait! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    At many companies, if you refuse to use Windows, then you are out of a job.