Your Luck May Vary (YLMV). I spent 6 months trying to migrate from MS-DOS to Windows 3.1. A day is the most Linux has ever taken me. Plus a week to re-install non-distribution packages from FTP or from the backup tages. Six months ago I installed a wireless LAN. I had to download and compile the driver and two different versions of the PCMCIA Card Services for two different Linux distributions (SuSE 6.1 and Slackware 4.0). It took 3-4 hours. Then I tackled the Win95 box with the manufacturer's driver disk. It took 2 hours, mostly waiting for re-boots. Linux: 2 hours per box reading and editting configs file while the compiles ran. Windows: 2 hours bored while waiting for floppy reads and re-boots. Linux meets my needs much better than Window for 95% of what I need to do. VMware takes care of most of the rest. A couple of hours a year I need to boot into Windows native for some odd thing, usually sound app/player that isn't available for Linux and won't (yet) work under VMware. Gotta run and finish my taxes. TurboTax is a lifesaver and I can live without sound in the videos because I can live without the videos. Question: have you every installed Windows on bare metal? Installed, not upgraded. If you haven't, you are comparing apples and oranges. Jeffrey Quoting Morsal Roudbay :

Cant say no to that Jerry, but is it reasonable to spend days fixing something that takes a few hours max on Windows? (reffering to the summary) That is simply unacceptable in my opinion.

From: "Jerry Kreps" To: "Morsal Roudbay" ; "Jethro Cramp" ; "suse-linux-e" Sent: Saturday, April 07, 2001 6:23 PM Subject: Re: [SLE] Linux on the desktop at work - Summary of week 1

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Not true, Morsal, MANY 'ppl' WILL migrate as their needs are met.

Not everyone's needs are the same, and migration won't be lock-step. Some will never migrate. Other's like myself, migrated a couple years ago, or earlier. One thing for sure: the numbers of those migrating to Linux are rising exponentially. Like any 'reaction', there are forward rates and there are backward rates. But, the rate of migration is positive and increasing! JLK

On Saturday 07 April 2001 05:04, Morsal Roudbay wrote:

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Very interesting reading but IMHO ppl wont start migrating until all these difficulties are solved. A company or even ppl in general cant afford to spend all this time fixing their computers, so for the moment Linux will stay in my server room.

Morsal

From: "Jethro Cramp" To: "suse-linux-e" Sent: Sunday, April 08, 2001 1:55 AM Subject: [SLE] Linux on the desktop at work - Summary of week 1

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I thought I'd drop a summary to the list of my experiences of switching 100% from Windows to SuSE 7.1 on the desktop.

I'd just like to say a big thanks to everyone on this list who has over the last year helped me both directly and indirectly to learn about Linux and resolve my specific problems. Without this community I would not have been able to make this transition.

I have been playing with SuSE since 6.0 so it wasn't as big a transition as just picking up Linux one day and wiping the windows partition. In other words I have been preparing a long time for this day. Last Monday I felt the time was right.

My daily desktop is a Toshiba Satellite 2805 laptop. It's specs are:

-- I don't do Windows and I don't come to work before nine. -- Johnny Paycheck