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[sdavmor]

Felipe Alfaro Solana wrote:
> On 10/23/06, K S Balaji <balajiks2k at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Ubuntu as well as Linux distros have a long journey to make
>> before they can compete with Windows which I had to learn the
>> hard way.  Now I have to get my XP activated again...:-(
> 
> I strongly disagree... :-)
> 
> I think Ubuntu has a long way to go to be perfect, but Windows has 
> even a longer way to be usable, secure and reliable. I have been
> using Ubuntu for a long time, and Fedora for even a longer time,
> and they have been always more realiable to use, although I realize
> there are things that still need to get polished.
> 
> Anyways, you should use what it works for you. If Ubuntu didn't
> work for you after trying to get it working, looking for help,
> etc., then you will probably want to turn back to Windows, although
> that won't keep you from losing mails in Thunderbird since, it
> seems to me, the problem was not with Ubuntu, but with Thunderbird
> itself.

My 2 cents on Ubuntu.

I've been using it on my laptop for a few weeks and I think it's very
impressive as a desktop. I still have my XP install on it, but I'm
thinking seriously about pulling the plug. I've been a Thunderbird
email user for a couple of years and a Firefox/Mozilla browser user
for longer, so the transition has been smooth. The Office Org suite so
far does everything I need for office productivity.

On the server front for my dbms apps I've still got a few issues, but
those are not Ubuntu-specific problems. I can see the light at the end
of the tunnel and it looks to be very bright indeed.

Other that that I'd add that my Windows-centric MS Office using wife
is very impressed with Ubuntu. My two boys are withholding judgment
until they see what Windows games of theirs will run on it.

For perspective I'm a 25+ year dbms and systems programmer with about
half that time spent on *nix systems (and parallel environments like
PrimOS, VMS and MVS).
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