Linux for BBSpot

Brian Briggs, maintainer of the humor-site BBSpot, writes about his experiences giving Linux a try:

I doubt I’ll make the complete switch anytime soon, but my first experience definitely makes it a consideration. I’ll need to make a list of applications that I use on a daily basis and try to search out a Linux counterpart. Fortunately that process is a bit easier for me since I use Mozilla as my browser and OpenOffice.org as my office suite. I foresee that I’ll slowly make the transition. […]

I find such accounts of using Linux heartening, as I hope to psych myself up to do the same (as soon as I have lesser things to worry about).

3 thoughts on “Linux for BBSpot

  1. The “hummming and hawing”, as you so put it, is because I have my computer working just right for my job search. I have all of my job data (such as search logs) on my computer, including addresses and phone numbers of jobs to which I have applied.

    So, I wouldn’t want to lose any of that information, even if it was only temporarily for a few days (during the transition).

    Another issue is hard drive space — I don’t have enough for a Linux installation. And, I’m not in the position to buy a new one at the moment, either ;).

  2. Hard drive space? Linux takes up *much* less than Windows.

    Of course, you could be talking about dual boot…

    Whenever I had a dual-boot setup, I found myself never booting into the “other” OS. I say go 100% one way or the other.

    Personally, I stopped using Linux. I got tired of Linux being so behind on multimedia stuff, for example. When your core tasks revolve around a/v stuff, IM, Email and the Web, Linux doesn’t make much sense at all. Windows XP is just so darn easy. No more of this “oh boy, I have a voice recorder on my gnome desktop now–nevermind that windows had that feature 10 years ago, etc.”-type enthusiasm. :-)

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