The Linux experiment continues.....
Mar. 28th, 2010 02:44 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
poltr1After using Ubuntu Linux on one desktop and two laptops for several months, I find that I can do most of eveything I need to do in Ubuntu. Three notable exceptions I've found so far:
1) Using a PCMCIA modem on a laptop. Linux and PCMCIA modems don't get along very well. Primarily because most PCMCIA modems are Winmodems, which use part of the Windows operating system to perform its tasks. If I'm at a place that has only dial-up (such as my mom's place in Buffalo), I have to boot up in Windows.
2) Websites that require Internet Explorer. There are some websites out there, presumably developed using Microsoft products, that don't support Firefox. (Shame on them.) And Microsoft isn't going to develop a version of IE for Linux anytime soon.
3) Windows-only apps. I haven't tried installing or running TurboTax via Wine.
I intend to keep using Ubuntu as my primary operating system for the foreseeable future.
P.S. Ubuntu 10.04 -- aka Lucid Lynx -- is scheduled to be released on April 29.
1) Using a PCMCIA modem on a laptop. Linux and PCMCIA modems don't get along very well. Primarily because most PCMCIA modems are Winmodems, which use part of the Windows operating system to perform its tasks. If I'm at a place that has only dial-up (such as my mom's place in Buffalo), I have to boot up in Windows.
2) Websites that require Internet Explorer. There are some websites out there, presumably developed using Microsoft products, that don't support Firefox. (Shame on them.) And Microsoft isn't going to develop a version of IE for Linux anytime soon.
3) Windows-only apps. I haven't tried installing or running TurboTax via Wine.
I intend to keep using Ubuntu as my primary operating system for the foreseeable future.
P.S. Ubuntu 10.04 -- aka Lucid Lynx -- is scheduled to be released on April 29.
