Blogging Ottinger (tim)25 Reasons to Convert to Linux
25 Reasons to Convert to Linux are given by The Linux Information Project. I like to extend item #4. A guy asked me the other day about risks involving the Debian project, and I told him (truthfully) that you couldn’t take down the Debian project with an atomic bomb. It’s rather an amazing thought.
My reasons NOT to rush into converting are
1) cheap off-the-shelf pc hardware compatibility (which is imperfect, esp. with laptops and wireless cards: both improving) and
2) some idiots don’t realize that a lot of people (LOT!) use Windows and Linux and BSD. Windows-only stuff is an annoyance.
I just ran Nautilus for the first time in a long time, and I was amazed at how smart it is. I may have to run that from withing XFCE now and again. Nice work, Nautilus project. Good hardware handling.
Otherwise, it’s great stuff…especially if you run XFCE.
