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Title: Warning: Five Things to Know Before Switching to Linux
Post by: sam on July 30, 2010, 04:10

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A happy customer might tell someone. An unhappy customer tells everyone. Converting to Linux before taking a dose of reality might make you a very unhappy customer. Let's be perfectly honest. Linux isn't for everyone-yet. However, Ubuntu, Mandriva, and a few other distributions come close but for now, Linux is a little more difficult to use than Windows.

http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/202177/warning_five_things_to_know_before_switching_to_linux.html

Title: Re: Warning: Five Things to Know Before Switching to Linux
Post by: davy51 on July 30, 2010, 14:48

He is right in a way
Som e things are hard to get done on linux
Drivers and flash drives are just two of the small ones I can think of

Getting a flash drive to work like it shoud was a pain mainly because most portable aps are EXE packages

Title: Re: Warning: Five Things to Know Before Switching to Linux
Post by: sam on July 30, 2010, 15:35

I've never had an issue with a flash drive... I just stick it in a job done. I dunno, maybe if you want to run the premade apps then its an issue - though if that's the case then you need windows.