Convince me
May. 21st, 2004 09:54 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
plonqAt risk of starting a flame war in my user comments I have shut off all screening.
In the past year or so I have had more than one person try and convince me that I would be better off running Linux as my primary operating system.
For the sake of argument, assume the following:
I am running a very stable Windows XP system which is completely current in all security patches and updates. I am behind a hardware router/firewall, and am also running a current software firewall/anti-virus program.
I sometimes work from home and I need full compatibility with our MS Office suite (including complex spreadsheets and databases). I also need full compatibility with our Exchange 2003 servers, and our other web-based applications. My primary browser is Firefox (which I forgo in favour of IE when I need to access our Exchange servers because Firefox chokes on some of the features).
When I am not working, and not downloadingporn stuff, I spend my time playing online games like Neverwinter Nights, and various Half-Life mods.
Your task - should you choose to accept it - is to convince me that I would be better off running Linux, or some variant thereof. What would be my net benefit?
Assume that I am pragmatic enough that, if convinced that I would benefit from the switch, I would seriously consider doing so (maybe the latest SUSE) on my next hard drive upgrade -- which, given that I am running near capacity on my current one - should be comparatively soon.
Also note that "with a modest amount of work you can do everything you do now" is not a compelling argument because that's just change for the sake of change with no net benefit.
The floor is now yours.
In the past year or so I have had more than one person try and convince me that I would be better off running Linux as my primary operating system.
For the sake of argument, assume the following:
I am running a very stable Windows XP system which is completely current in all security patches and updates. I am behind a hardware router/firewall, and am also running a current software firewall/anti-virus program.
I sometimes work from home and I need full compatibility with our MS Office suite (including complex spreadsheets and databases). I also need full compatibility with our Exchange 2003 servers, and our other web-based applications. My primary browser is Firefox (which I forgo in favour of IE when I need to access our Exchange servers because Firefox chokes on some of the features).
When I am not working, and not downloading
Your task - should you choose to accept it - is to convince me that I would be better off running Linux, or some variant thereof. What would be my net benefit?
Assume that I am pragmatic enough that, if convinced that I would benefit from the switch, I would seriously consider doing so (maybe the latest SUSE) on my next hard drive upgrade -- which, given that I am running near capacity on my current one - should be comparatively soon.
Also note that "with a modest amount of work you can do everything you do now" is not a compelling argument because that's just change for the sake of change with no net benefit.
The floor is now yours.
