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Microsoft Free, One Year Later

Posted by kdawson on from the year-of-linux-on-the-desktop dept.

madgreek writes "Last year I wrote of my switch from XP to Ubuntu at work. Now a year later, I am back to reflect on one year of being extremely productive at work using (almost) nothing but open source software in a Microsoft world."

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  1. Technologically inclined person successfully uses by patio11 · · Score: 5, Funny

    ... a computer.

    Film at 11.

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  2. You're not the first. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Protip: You're not the first person to use linux for a whole year.
    *Gasp*

  3. Re:Technologically inclined person successfully us by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Then go install OpenOffice on your vista box and discover that it can read more document formats (and more variations on MS's own formats) thatn MS's software can. Can't do that. If they find it installed on his computer he'll get sacked from his job at Microsoft.
  4. Re:Preventing Linux's 'Last year' by syousef · · Score: 5, Funny

    With a dignity I hope that I have a tenth of when I die, Linux users and Linux developers have fought, and some died defending the vision of Linux and the FSF to preserve a future where some of us still do control how our computers are used.

    I didn't realize that free software was such a dangerous thing to get into? Did someone overdose on pizza and coke while kernel debugging late one night or something???

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  5. Re:Oh sweet, MS Free! by TheP4st · · Score: 4, Funny

    Ubuntu makes a fine server, but geeze does it suck cocks
    I'll keep that in mind for the next time my girlfriend have a "headache".
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  6. He he... Lemme guess... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    From the private journal of madgreek:

    Day 365, "Microsoft-Free":

    I'm so glad this sham is over. I can't *wait* to get back to using a fully-featured OS with productivity applications capable of handling actual, real-life, grownup business needs.

    Oh, and I can't wait until I don't have to f-ing hack my own drivers for new "cutting-edge" (and by "cutting-edge" I mean 2-year-old, in common use my the majority of PC users) hardware.

    To be honest, I actually didn't even *use* Linux except to boot, start a VM, and run Windows to actually get the Grown-Up Work done for the last nine months.

    ... Just six more hours... Maybe I can pass the time by playing a fun, modern (and by "modern" I mean something slightly newer than nethack) game on my Linux bo- Uh.. Nevermind. I'll just talk to Eliza in emacs until this cruel, horrible torture is over.

  7. Re:Linux Visio Clone. by mebrahim · · Score: 5, Funny

    KDE vs. Gnome, Terminal vs. GUI, Vi vs. Emacs, ... and now Kivio vs. Dia! Nice!

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  8. Re:Linux has been business-desktop ready for years by FictionPimp · · Score: 4, Funny

    Infra-Recorder,however, is the awesome. I high recommend it to all my friends who are still using legacy operating systems like windows.