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Authored by: stegu on Sunday, December 30 2012 @ 06:08 PM EST |
This cost of switching is now more of a myth than
a fact, perpetuated by MS spokespersons to stop
people from taking the dive into the unknown.
The actual cost of switching to Linux for me was
zero, because I knew it well after a decade of
active home use. Many of my colleagues don't really
care what OS they use as long as they can get
Firefox, Thunderbird, LaTeX and Matlab to work,
and those are available for any common platform.
I'm sad to say that the Windows exodus is largely
channeled through MacOS X, but from there, the step
to anything else not MS-centric is not that large.
True, my workplace is a university department with
some strange geeks, but we do use Linux and MacOS a
a lot more than Windows these days, and we have
never looked back in regret.
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