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What Desktop OS do you use? - 2006/02/06 17:13
I keep reading these figures for Linux desktops and I just don't get it. Why would a technologist pay for UNIX or Windows when they could have a Linux desktop for free? I keep asking myself the question and I don't get any answers.
I tried the one about, well I've always used Microsoft and I don't mind paying $600 for the OS and the applications I need. That might apply to the 2% of the population that have household incomes over $75,000 annually and $100,000 in credit card debt, a $200,000 mortgage on a house worth $155,000.
But, people starting out, people programming, managing web sites, etc. I see them as having to make economic decisions.
I use Ubuntu 5.10 right now. I have since it came out. I like it.
I used to have Fedora Core 4 running on a second machine and SUSE 10 on another. But, Ubuntu is now my primary desktop. I converted the other two boxes to servers and they don't have X on them. One runs my web site and the other runs a secondary DNS server.
Am I 100% happy with Ubuntu 5.10? No, I'm not. It works for my needs, but I have little annoyances with it. Compared to the time I had to run Windows to get an Internet connection [HYPERLINK@lxer.com] I'm very happy with Ubuntu.
I would like a management tool like yast and I think it would be cool if Ubuntu ported Yast. I'd like the Ubuntu developers to support existing versions of applications like Fedora and SUSE do. For example, I'd like to get a full patch to Openoffce.org 2.0 and I would like to get FF upgraded. I downloaded 1.5 and installed it myself, which isn't a big deal for me. But, I would have preferred getting one built by the developers for the Ubuntu desktop.
I'm staying with Ubuntu for now.
What do you use?
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