Sam Harrelson made me do it
I’ve been getting annoyed with my windows powered machine for a while now and was finally tipped over the edge this evening when I got in and found that my Thunderbird mail client had crashed and data disapeared.
So I spent the remainder of the evening backing up as much data as possible before booting up onto the Ubuntu CD, removing windows and starting afresh going open source.
So far so good. The install was painless but having to edit some files in terminal to get access to my other windows drive could have been easier.
The inlaws are round this weekend (!), but my aim for when I have some spare time is to try and get my mail back and get Photoshop running (which should work via Wine) as i’ve never been a big fan of Gimp (the open source alternative).
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Open source software is great.
I do use openoffice - though I do sometimes long for Microsoft Office - but it is just a case of getting used to it.
I know openoffice has good (but far from perfect) compatabillity to Word. And does everyhthing that word does - just the menus and buttons are in the wrong / different places.