Re: Why I dumped Microsoft and Went Back to linux

From: Harvey Van Sickle (harvey.news_at_ntlworld.com)
Date: 02/27/05 

Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 15:01:45 GMT

On 27 Feb 2005, ian wrote

> Harvey Van Sickle wrote:
>
>> On 26 Feb 2005, ASSBITE wrote
>>
>>> Solong HARVEY!!
>>
>> Top-poster. Kinda' says it all, really.
>>
>>
> True , I leave one of my boxes on due to the boot up time , and no
> there is not a quick shutdown I just shutdown and leave the room
> it shuts down on its own.

Thanks for confirming that; I wasn't sure if it was just my system.
(It's not a big deal -- but as I'm booting in and out of Windows at the
moment, I'm noticing the difference.)

> I think micro$oft should be very embaresed at how good linux is
> and the killer punch is cost .I can have more software than I need
> for less than one copy of windows and can install it on all my
> machines legally.

That will certainly become a factor for me: I have an old (and seldom-
used) laptop which also runs 98, and when I'm forced to abandon the OS
(which is bound to happen -- probably sooner rather than later), I'll
certainly be going for something that I can install legally on two
machines.

> I need office software dvd software and network software the ones
> in linux more than meet my needs .I have office 97 on my works
> laptop Open office is better

I guess it depends on what one needs/wants in a word processing
package. I still use Office 97, and since I probably make use of only
10% or so of its capabilities, the later improvements in both Word and
OpenOffice have never really attracted me. A "horses and courses"
thing, like most of these considerations.

> I am a Data network engineer so use the command line a lot .The
> tools I require ie host dig whois come as standard in linux and
> are not extras.

If I did that sort of thing, there'd be no question that the balance
would favour Linux very strongly. I don't, though, so for the time
being it's still six-of-one-etc. 

-- 
Cheers,
Harvey