Four years ago I saved my money as a carpenter and bought a laptop with win98. I had used old Macs, win3.11 (486), Tandy 1000, TI-994/A recursively in my past. I bought a lot of software (yes I even paid for MS Office Small Business edition retail). I have since graduated to Linux and windows with two computers and a print server (little cute thing). I find that I prefer using only one machine and It is the windows box with StarOffice, OpenOffice, Gimp, MSOffice, Games... Bla Bla Bla and web use.
Linux Mandrake befuddles me with Samba as it has changed so much I run 8.1 Mandrake that I still use FTP in my house to fetch my work back and forth. Having my second machine run win98 makes gathering much easier.
I like Linux as a toy, but I find that I know how to do much more with windows. Even if I end up doing a unstable reboot once a week when something weird in a game does not function.
I liked when I got a server from someone and I took my hard drive from a Pentium 66 to a PII 400 and the windows OS installed all quite nicely with all of my data intact from my hardrive. So...
I think that linux needs more market oriented folks who can provide it to the masses. And push for ways to make it an OS for neophyte geeks like me who are dumb enough to spend money for something the barely understand but know will work. Then it will be Microsoft that begins a Linux software division.
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Four years ago I saved my money as a carpenter and bought a laptop with win98. I had used old Macs, win3.11 (486), Tandy 1000, TI-994/A recursively in my past. I bought a lot of software (yes I even paid for MS Office Small Business edition retail). I have since graduated to Linux and windows with two computers and a print server (little cute thing). I find that I prefer using only one machine and It is the windows box with StarOffice, OpenOffice, Gimp, MSOffice, Games... Bla Bla Bla and web use.
Linux Mandrake befuddles me with Samba as it has changed so much I run 8.1 Mandrake that I still use FTP in my house to fetch my work back and forth. Having my second machine run win98 makes gathering much easier.
I like Linux as a toy, but I find that I know how to do much more with windows. Even if I end up doing a unstable reboot once a week when something weird in a game does not function.
I liked when I got a server from someone and I took my hard drive from a Pentium 66 to a PII 400 and the windows OS installed all quite nicely with all of my data intact from my hardrive. So...
I think that linux needs more market oriented folks who can provide it to the masses. And push for ways to make it an OS for neophyte geeks like me who are dumb enough to spend money for something the barely understand but know will work. Then it will be Microsoft that begins a Linux software division.