Posted 02/06/2008 at 10:49:58am

I finally did it. I made the switch at work. After about 3 weeks I'm finally comfortable with the gnome gui and starting to understand the terminal. I'm an MCSE and a long long time windows user. So it makes it that much tougher to switch. Like Will did though, I decided I have to give it a chance. I'm going to use it exclusively here at work for at least a year. I wouldn't be a geek if I didn't But, I'll tell you what (and this is with an open mind) as of right now, the only benefits over XP are: 1. It's free 2. Not as much worry about viruses and spyware. Graphically its similar or a little tougher than XP. Setting up the OS is easy and getting on the web with standard hardware is a snap. I'm doing this on a 1ghz PIII with 512 MB of ram and a geforce mx440 pci video card. All the hardware was installed correctly and I'm using the "Extra" Effects settings with 2 desktops. I also installed Kubuntu desktop and sometimes use the KDE desktop just for kicks. But doing anything outside the box is a P.I.T.A. (Like getting flash to work in opera) Sure it gets easier with time, but it isn't easy, and it certainly takes some time. To sum it up: It hasn't rocked my computer world, but it doesn't suck either. I'm not going to uninstall it here, but I'm not going to make my wife use it at home. *Men are not against you; they are merely for themselves"