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sittingduck wrote:

> Iñaki Silanes wrote:
> 
>> Do you imagine ALL s/w being equally available in both plataforms? Linux
>> would clean the house hands down! (forgive me if my slang is flaky,
>> English is my third language).
>> 
> 
> Don't get me wrong.. I would probably use Linux on all of my computers if
> the software I like to use worked on it. I have used linux, though not for
> long. I ran Mandrake on one of my computers for a while, but found it
> pretty impractical. I run Apache (in windows) and built and maintain
> several websites on a Linux server. As I stated earlier, Linux is very
> good at what it does, but for my needs as a desktop it falls WAY SHORT.
> For me to spend the time to learn a completely new system for my home
> network, and then not be able to use dozens of programs that I am used to
> using almost daily, just does not seem worthwile.

Hey, if Windows works for you, then go for it! I wish every MS customer was
happy... just because I am so good-hearted :^)

If some day you decide to make the switch, remember that there are thousands
of forums out there that can help you out. Also remember that Linux has
some programs that can substitute (sometimes poorly, sometimes fairly
advantageously) some proprietary s/w that hat not been ported to Linux
already (say, there's no Photoshop for Linux so far, but The GIMP is a
fairly decent substitute. IE does not run under Linux, but there are
several other browsers that can meet your requirements... and so on).

-- 
Iñaki Silanes / Chemistry Faculty UPV-EHU Donostia
http://www.sc.ehu.es/powgep99/dcytp/teoricos/staff/inaki/inaki.htm
On Intelligent Design: http://www.venganza.org/