Kevanf1 wrote:
likely to falter at this first hurdle and turn straight back to warmth and comfort (however illusionary) of MS Windows.
this is not new. I use to say that when you buy your windows computer it works very nicely. Then as long as time passes, its works not so well, then stop at all working. there You may re-install Windows. This happens 3/4 times a year on a common machine, and spend 2/3 days work. With Linux, the problem is different. nowaday the basic install works and you get a running machine. But you need to fine tune it (install Nvidia proprietary drivers...). But as long as the time pass your machine is better and better. You must hold on your will of using the so beautifull next SUSE version when the actual one is perfect for your needs. On a server, you may update your linux any two years to keep security updates easy, but as well you can keep it for 5/6 years with little efforts Your desktop, you may find usefull to change the distro once a year, for fun (keeping the old one at hand just in case). And having a windows machine somewhere on the net for thouse programms that you can't affort to live without and don't runs unders any linux combination (can play WoW under Linux?). but the net result is that Linux quite never let you down with an urgent work to do, when with windows you can never say so. And new Linux pre-configured machines works out of the box (don't forget _all_ windows machines come pre-configured) jdd -- http://www.dodin.net http://dodin.org/galerie_photo_web/expo/index.html http://lucien.dodin.net http://fr.susewiki.org/index.php?title=Gérer_ses_photos