After 9½ weeks of steamy action

Uncountable are the moments I thought switching back to Windows was the best thing I could do. Ubuntu is very user-friendly, flexible and docs/manuals are extremely good, but it still requires a lot of time to understand it thoroughly. I felt like investing my time in this new OS would be worthwhile. I thought I would be more productive afterwards.
OK, it was up very quickly and it stayed up. But when you started altering and modifying it sometimes goes down and then you need all kinds of techniques to get it up again. After 9½ weeks I was just to exhausted and lost my appetite for intercourse completely.

I think the Linux experience is quite comparable to other open source experiences. Right now I’m quite comfortable with MySQL & PHP (and other open source products), it has a long learning curve, but it was worth it because of the flexibility and the rapid development ... at the end.
It may have been easier to work with MS Dynamics, VBA, ... but I would lose the flexibility ... at the end. Now there is no way I’m going to "downgrade" to an MS Solution. With the OS it's the other way around. I started with the Windows solution and right now I need too much time to make the switch to a "better", more flexible, more robust open source OS.



At the end of the journey it was an informative experience and next time you take a dip into the Linux OS pool you are more familiar with the surroundings, however you must have found out the same thing I did a few years ago.

While there are enough alternatives to the paying Microsoft solutions, at the end of the line, for a none-noob PC user, having been used Microsoft OS for years, it's easy to start missing features you had, getting fed up with searching for features in Linux, having to consult online forums and trouble-shooting/howto/manuals for every thing you know how to do in Windows OS, but do not know how to do yet in Linux.

In a world where PC should be helping you SAVE time, having to LOSE time to perform mundane tasks, is the opposite of a "good" solution. While Windows is BLOATWARE, those millions of dollars spend on research (the kind of resources Linux community has not) do pay off, and while some features and functions can be seen as copied from other OS, at the end of the day you can find your way around the MS OS quite easily and be more productive than on other OS'es, even if you know those by heart.



I'm sure the future will only look better for Ubuntu and others, with more features streamlined and less under the hood tweaking to be done by the end user. In order for an OS to stand a chance against the known value of Microsoft it has to be near 100% fool-proof. 10 years ago you couldn't get a Linux distro with GUI installed without fiddling with the xconfig file; 10 years from now we'll have a complete Windows replacement OS;

Only question is, will a fat OS (fat client) still be required by then? Both Microsoft and Google are focusing on online applications and content, meaning you can launch a system with a browser and be off producing documents and working to hearth's content, so maybe this article is completely superfluous.