100% Linux - Is it possible?

Matt Morgan minxmertzmomo at gmail.com
Thu Feb 3 18:17:51 UTC 2005


On Wed, 02 Feb 2005 19:38:09 +0000, Pete Choppin <pchoppin at comcast.net> wrote:
>  
> I was just looking for a consensus on this... 

Consensus will probably not happen :-).

> 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? 

At work we're locked-in to a couple major systems (collections
management--we're a museum; donor management) that are Windows-only.
But I've been Linux-only for over a year and I use a Windows terminal
server when I need to administer those systems.

At home I only use Windows for games, and rarely at that. Wine works
sometimes and I don't play games with much dedication.

It's the apps. Do you need to use any apps that are Windows-only? If
so, do they work in Wine? Pretty much every windows-only app has a
Linux compatible competitor, so we're talking mainly about existing
apps to which you have a prior commitment. So I would say, if you
can't think of a reason you need Windows now, there probably won't be
a reason in future.

On the other hand, if you have a legal Windows license, why give it
up? You don't have to use it.




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