from Windows to Linux [back] It is now commonly admitted that Unices and free Unix clones like GNU/Linux are better than Windows-family OSes for server uses. But what for workstations ? Many people tend to say Linux isn't yet useable for daily tasks. This is, in my opinion, a wrong assertion ; I use Linux distributions everyday with no difficulties. Given that you chose a recent distribution, you won't have much pain installing it. USB, accelerated video and so on work out-of-the-box on most x86 distros. This page is not aimed at installing or configuring a distro, as many, many web pages should already help you in these tasks. It'll just present you a list of software allowing you to perform the same tasks, often better, that you did on Windows. ____________________________________________________________________________ | Windows | Linux | |--------------------------------------|-------------------------------------| | Internet Explorer | Mozilla | | | Galeon | |--------------------------------------|-------------------------------------| | Outlook Express | Claws Mail | | | Pan | |--------------------------------------|-------------------------------------| | Office | OpenOffice | | | Abiword | | | Gnumeric | |--------------------------------------|-------------------------------------| | Windows Media Player, DVD softs | Mplayer | | | Ogle | |--------------------------------------|-------------------------------------| | Editplus, text editors | Nedit | |--------------------------------------|-------------------------------------| | Winamp | XMMS | |--------------------------------------|-------------------------------------| | Messengers (MSN, Yahoo, ...) | Everybuddy | |--------------------------------------|-------------------------------------| | Media encoding (mp3, avi) | Grip | | | mplayer | |--------------------------------------|-------------------------------------| | Photoshop, PaintShopPro | Gimp | |--------------------------------------|-------------------------------------| | ACDSee | Gqview | |--------------------------------------|-------------------------------------| | Games | www.linuxgames.com | '--------------------------------------'-------------------------------------' Feel free to tell me if I missed important things - I put in everything I use :-) [back]