Chris Mauritz chrism@imntv.com wrote:
I normally don't use Linux for desktop usage.
I can't stand anything but GNOME ever since it hit 1.053 many, many years ago. And before then, Feeble95 did the jobbie too.
However, I recently set up a CentOS 4.1 system specifically to use as a "windows replacement" desktop system. I haven't had a minute's trouble with it and have been happily using it to watch movies, rip CDs, edit/consume M$ Office documents, create some artwork with the Gimp, etc. To date, I haven't found anything I *can't* do with it (except cause it to crash....Windows has that contest locked up...ooh...ugly pun...OK, I'm going now). 8-)
There is something to be said for running Freedomware on Windows. If a user is considering going back to Windows, maybe it's best they get familar with, and all there data over into, Freedomware format from Windows before they attempt Linux again.
Sometimes Linux for Linux's sake can be a bad move. As a good colleague of mine always said (who is a MacOS X user of many, many Freedomware apps), people use applications, not OSes.