Re: 100% Linux - Is it possible?

From: Marc M (linuxr_at_gmail.com)
Date: 02/02/05

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    That's a very reasonable question. It depends on how you are in one
    direction or another on the reasonable/unreasonable continuum. :)
    Also depends on circumstances. Unless you are like my (below)
    scenario (institutional impositions -- back against the wall from
    school or work - which we should do something about) -- you should
    probably go ahead and switch completely and not look back. Fedora
    will do everything you want right out of the box.

    I had windows Xtra Pussified version as a dual boot for awhile b/c I
    was taking grad classes with a professor who imposed Microsoft-only
    exercises on the class. For 'safety' and not wanting to do an install
    at 3 am in an emergency, I kept it around. Now that I am out of the
    class, I don't need windows at all, for anything.

    Absolutely everything I can do with Linux, although sometimes I have
    to ask lots of questions to get a similar/compatible application, or
    to do something I am not used to. As long as you keep a good
    attitude of friendly experimentation, you should be fine. THe people
    who have problems are people who want Linux to 'do' everything 'for'
    them. For example, recently I ran into a limitation of
    Openoffice.org, and people were talking about other word processing
    apps on this list. So I d/l' d some other applications (AbiWord and
    another) and got them to do what I needed to do.

    Some people want their hand held or throw tantrums when they have to
    learn something. That is not what Linux is about. They are not
    usually people that I want to be around anyway, and their technical
    issues are usually stupid regardless.

    Congratulations, Neo, on taking a step that many people never take for
    one reason or another. Do you want the red pill or the blue pill?

    Cheers
    Marc

    On Wed, 02 Feb 2005 19:38:09 +0000, Pete Choppin <pchoppin@comcast.net> wrote:
    >
    > I was just looking for a consensus on this...
    >
    > I have been working with Fedora Core 3 for the past month. My new years
    > resolution was to learn Linux. So far, so good.
    >
    > I created a dual-boot Fedora / Windows XP. I am now seriously considering
    > going completely 100% Linux and dumping my Windows partition entirely.
    >
    > The question is - can you live completely without Windows, or do you sooner
    > or later have to resort to Windows again?
    >
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