Can Linux Replace Windows - Maybe!
I loaded Ubuntu Linux on my test laptop a couple of weeks ago more or less on a lark, thinking I would just see for myself what the current state of the Linux world is today. When I saw how easily it loaded (and how quickly!), and how well it worked, I decided to try loading it on my main laptop to see how that would go. When I saw how well that worked, I started to wonder if it might be possible to replace Windows with Linux for an ordinary PC user, such as the ones I am often asked to help with Windows problems. After two weeks of loading a variety of different Linux distributions (but nowhere near all or even most of them!), and configuring, and experimenting, and learning, and talking with my partner and my brother, I would say the answer to that question is a qualified "Yes".
I think it is a good commentary on the state of Linux software for me to say that one of the biggest criteria in deciding if you can switch to Linux is what peripheral hardware you want to use. If you user your PC for email, web browsing, storing and minor editing of pictures from your digital camera, and other such "everyday" tasks, then you are likely to be very happy with Linux. In fact as I said to my brother yesterday evening, a typical Windows XP user could probably switch to Ubuntu or Mandriva Linux more easily today than they can switch to Vista. In a lot of critical ways the differences are not as large, and since Linux is a lot less likely to hang, crash or otherwise misbehave there would be less irritation and distraction in the switch.
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