Linux for an association I work for.

[Yotam Rubin]

Not to take the wind out of your sails, I would probably advise against
switching to Linux for anyone who's not a Linux expert. While it took me
some years to reach this conclusion, I now believe that Linux is not a
viable choice for anyone who's not an advanced user. My reasons follow:
 1. Mainstream desktop environments (KDE, GNOME) have gotten slower and
buggier over the years. As I bought faster hardware, KDE and GNOME seemed
slower and crashed more often.
 2. Linux distributions don't work. Even Ubuntu and other mainstream
distributions simply do not work. Package testing is poor, and various
programs do not integrate with one another. I often find myself having to
fix things manually, usually by digging deep into various
scripts/configuration files. Additionally, at least with Ubuntu, upgrades
tend to break horribly, requiring a clean reinstallation.
 3. Usability as a whole is becoming less viable. Applications (at least
with my recent Ubuntu distrubutions) tend to crash often, work more slowly
and have less features.

Windows suffers from the same problems, only it's not as slow as Linux. On
the other hand, I've been using OS X lately, and the thing works. The UI is
simple, relatively powerful and does not randomly crash. I'm guessing OS X
is not a valid choice for you, due to the prohibitive cost of Mac hardware.

Anyway, that's what I think.

Good luck, though.

Yotam Rubin

2009/2/28 David Harel <hareldvd at gmail.com>

>  Greetings,
>
>
>  I need your help regarding convincing the vice president of an
> association to shift from MS XP to Linux. What I did till now was install
> Ubuntu on two machines that were phasing out and failed to run MS. We got
> all services we needed including connectivity to external resources.
>
> Currently the objection to my initiation is in three items:
>
>    1. Make Linux connect to IPVPN (thought it is straight forward).
>     2. Maintenance cost.
>    3. Getting his approval for my test (seems like a small man).
>
> I need information to try to overturn his stubbornness.
>
>
>  --
> Regards.
>
> David Harel,
>
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