Whats Keeping me from quitting Windows

[ztrek7]

After this Ubuntu Breezy Distro, most of my linux quams have been satisfied. It just works. Hibernation, Wireless Network Switching, Read NTFS, Application Maintenance, the list goes on.

But there are two things keeping me from booting to ubuntu every time.

1. No decent calendaring that works with my Pocket PC PDA (I realize it's windows, it is what the boss ordered) I have searched and searched, seen some things about multisync and evolution. I don't want to have to do all that. I want to put my PDA in the cradle and sync contact, calendar, files, and emails automatically. If anyone knows of such a program, please post and let me know! (That is why I am posting)

2. No decent website managing software. I currently use Frontpage 2003 (I can hear the boo's), but, it works. WYSIWIG works, resize images in wysiwig AND optimize. Drag and Drop, move local files to remote seemlessly. I have tried NVU, and thought this was my answer, but it is still to rough. I would PAY for a decent website managing software if it was available (also would pay for calendaring solution as well), some kind of dreamweaver port or something. I know I can use fp 2000 with wine, but, I hate 2000. Alot of the features I like about FP are in 2003 only.

If anyone has any suggestions, please post. What are the true "converts" using? I am using Thunderbird for email (IMAP), tried the calendar extension, but still buggy and my mail server is still implementing iCal (MerakMailServer.com)

Thanks,

[Jeff Hunter]

Originally Posted by ztrek7 Star Trek watching, linux using, slashdot reading, can never leave my computer alone and keep messing with it till I break something, surprised I have a wife, Geek.

Yup...you are a Geek, alright.

Good to have a few of you around...sometimes feels lonly without the company of other Geeks to talk to.

Anywho, I am Quad booting Win98, Win XP Home, and both Hoary and Breezy. Will replace Hoary with Gentoo in the near future (mostly because I am trying to teach myself Linux...like any language, it is good to know a few of the different dialects, but I really like Ubuntu and will likely keep at least one partition for it). Win98 for nastalgia purposes (and for better DOS app compatability), Win XP for everything-else compatability (and also because I am a tech and need to keep current with the evil empire until it falls...makes me more marketable) and gaming (still have not tried Cadega).

Anywho, that is what keeps me on Windows, but I am spending as much time as I can with Ubuntu Linux, along with reading a Linux+ book and any other materials I can find.

I will always have a touch of MS on my computer, but less and less as time goes on. I always like to keep my tools ready if needed. After all, I did pay perfectly good money for it.

[Sionide]

Originally Posted by ztrek7 2. No decent website managing software. I currently use Frontpage 2003

The best html editor / web editor is called Bluefish - search for it on Synaptic, it's in the Universe.

[bonzodog]

well, not 100% ubuntu...I dual boot another linux distro...Slamd64, which is even more raw than ubuntu, very much distro-in-development. I GPF'd win98, and found it too easy to use...It was boring, I wanted something to hack around with, so started manually altering .ini files until it broke....that switched me to linux, 7 years ago. Have used linux ever since as a sole home OS, apart from a brief spat with winXp, but found it too hard to configure and keep running so erased it again. LInux for me is easier to use than windows. I find the CLI easier to understand, and I like to know what the system is actually doing when running commands.

[ember]

Actually I'm booting windows quite often the last days. Strangely my Warty installation ran smoother than Breezy does now.
And the other thing is, there is no such thing like Visual Studio for C# and Webservices in Linux. But I guess as soon as I will work more on my diploma thesis, my little penguin will get happier

Best,
ember

[Chris Cromer]

Well I dual boot... but I havn't used windows in months. I have it there just incase.

[chaumurky]

My main box is 24/7 Ubuntu but until Freevo is available (Python issues are holding it back I believe) I'm still running Meedio on XPHome for my HTPC. MythTV just doesn't cut it for plugins and sheer looks. Also, running Linux, I can't run an Nvidia card with PAL widescreen timings through my VGA (interlace not supported) and on an ATI card I can't get motion compensation decoding DTV so it runs the system hard. A specific but deal-breaking issue. In Windows, the ATI sings and I can decode HD using 15% of my CPU. So I wait...

EDIT: tipoes

[Rovenhot]

I haven't gone brown yet, because I wanted to make sure Ubuntu supported a good deal of everyday applications, and this thread convinced me, since many of you only dual-boot windows because it supports more popular software, e.g. games, etc. As for palm syncing, I don't own one. So, thanks!

[souled]

I used to dual boot with Win XP and Hoary, but I rarely every booted into Windows. After Breezy came out I just wiped my primary hdd and installed Breezy by itself. I'm happy I'm finally Windows free!!

[MadMan2k]

for me it is speed which keeps me from kicking winXP. Ubuntu is simpy slower; slow boot, slow desktop handling.
WinXP has natuarally a advantage here, since its GUI runs in kernel-mode. But Im still confident, that Exa will speed up cairo a lot.

Another point are games - but this is not that critical, since there are ports of the games Im intrested in. (UT2004, SS2, Darwinia)