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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: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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  4. 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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