Don’t understand all the folks with anti-business linux posts.
I’ve run my business on almost all linux based pc’s for several years now. There’s not a client I have that can detect that my “.doc and .xls” pages are generated from Open Office and not a Microsoft product.
Almost every person that’s worked for me in the last 5 years has asked me “how much would it cost” to put our office OS on their home system.
The single drawback for businesses like mine (< 20 employees) is the lack of a drop in replacement for quickbooks. We’ve got one legacy windows box (off network) for the single purpose of running quickbooks.
Other than that, I’ve been quite pleased with ubuntu on my laptop, and OpenSuse on the desktops. Actually I’m sitting in a coffee shop right now and have already had someone ask me how I can “spin” my desktop and “wobble” the windows when I move them. I can hardly imaging working on a lame windows “single desktop” environment anymore.
Yeah, but you have to waste time with other than good games. ;-)
We’ve got one legacy windows box (off network) for the single purpose of running quickbooks.
I like that. That you have a network needn't mean that everything must be on it. Nothing wrong with sneakernet.
It's called ignorance.
My main desktop PC at home is a dual-boot XP Pro/Ubuntu box. I only run Windows when I absolutely must have Excel, Word or Publisher. Open Office is still a little clunky and often deals poorly with .docx formatting. Quickbooks is also a Win must.
For everything else, I use Ubuntu. Since I’m the only one who does anything particularly advanced in the way of formatting or accounting, everyone else who uses that computer sticks with Linux. It gives them a 100% safe web surfing tool that starts and runs fast.
Gnome Mahjong has addicted pretty much everyone who has ever sat down at that computer.