Pete Choppin wrote:
I was just looking for a consensus on this...
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?
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Pete
That depends entirely on what software you consider mission critical, and how tightly you're bound to it. I use Quicken to manage my finances. Latest releases don't run under wine, and I don't like the available alternatives (e.g. gnucash) so I'll have at least one Windows box around for the forseeable future. For someone who is more flexible or less entrenched than I the process of eliminating Windows could be a lot easier. You have to ask yourself three questions. What software (if any) can't I live without? Can it run under Linux, directly or through a compatibility layer like wine? Are there acceptable alternatives? If you can answer those questions to your satisfaction, you could be running Linux exclusively by tomorrow.
Cheers,
Gordon Keehn
