Not to take the wind out of your sails, I would probably advise against switching to Linux for anyone who's not a Linux expert. While it took me some years to reach this conclusion, I now believe that Linux is not a viable choice for anyone who's not an advanced user. My reasons follow: 1. Mainstream desktop environments (KDE, GNOME) have gotten slower and buggier over the years. As I bought faster hardware, KDE and GNOME seemed slower and crashed more often. 2. Linux distributions don't work. Even Ubuntu and other mainstream distributions simply do not work. Package testing is poor, and various programs do not integrate with one another. I often find myself having to fix things manually, usually by digging deep into various scripts/configuration files. Additionally, at least with Ubuntu, upgrades tend to break horribly, requiring a clean reinstallation. 3. Usability as a whole is becoming less viable. Applications (at least with my recent Ubuntu distrubutions) tend to crash often, work more slowly and have less features.
Windows suffers from the same problems, only it's not as slow as Linux. On the other hand, I've been using OS X lately, and the thing works. The UI is simple, relatively powerful and does not randomly crash. I'm guessing OS X is not a valid choice for you, due to the prohibitive cost of Mac hardware. Anyway, that's what I think. Good luck, though. Yotam Rubin 2009/2/28 David Harel <harel...@gmail.com> > Greetings, > > > I need your help regarding convincing the vice president of an > association to shift from MS XP to Linux. What I did till now was install > Ubuntu on two machines that were phasing out and failed to run MS. We got > all services we needed including connectivity to external resources. > > Currently the objection to my initiation is in three items: > > 1. Make Linux connect to IPVPN (thought it is straight forward). > 2. Maintenance cost. > 3. Getting his approval for my test (seems like a small man). > > I need information to try to overturn his stubbornness. > > > -- > Regards. > > David Harel, > > ================================== > > Home office +972 77 7657645 > Cellular: +972 54 4534502 > Snail Mail: Amuka > D.N Merom Hagalil > 13802 > Israel > Email: harel...@ergolight-sw.com > > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-il mailing list > Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il > http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il > >
_______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
