Re: [tlug] Real-world replacement for Windows?

[Dave M G <martin@example.com>]

Shannon,

I had been using Windows for well over a decade and switched to Linux 
less than a year ago. To be completely accurate, at work I had used Mac 
and Irix at various times as well, but at home always Windows.
As the others on this list know, I am always full of questions and am in 
no way an expert on the particulars of using Linux.
However, as a person who, like yourself, is coming from Windows world 
and wants to use Linux as a means to various ends, and not as an end in 
itself, I might be able to help answer some questions you have about the 
process of transitioning.
I'm a little further down that path than it seems you are, having first 
dual-booted between Windows and Linux, having experimented with a couple 
different distributions (Fedora, Centos), and then eventually making my 
computer purely Linux (Ubuntu) and working and playing almost a 100% in 
Linux (I have a windows "virtual machine" within Ubuntu, but I only use 
it for specialized reasons).
Please ask more specific questions, and I and others on this list will 
be sure to try and help. I think you'll find this group is really 
supportive. They've been really good at getting me up to speed, to the 
point where I really like my new life with Linux.
--
Dave M G