Well I am using ubuntu and while there are a quite a few things that I am so annoyed with about it, I am finding it quite usable. There are several things that I have needed to do for life, business, and school, and I am able to accomplish all of them so far. I must say ubuntu is very nice for a comprhensive alternative to windows. It takes some work to figure out things to use alternativly compared to windows, but it is quite doable.

One thing I find quite instersing is I need to remote into a windows server 2003 machine well I didn’t want to boot up my laptop just to do that one thing so I did a little bit of searching and some asking around and found out about grdesktop. This is an amazing app. I was able to easily remote into Windows Server 2003 perfectly from a gui interface. I was very much impressed.

For the most part everything that I have needed to do I have been able to accomplish through a GUI which makes me very happy. The one problem though is you have to take a lot of time to find little programs that come default in windows. I currently don’t seem myself going back to windows on my desktop unless when I do get my 64bit computer I can’t do anything, but so far from everything I have seen there is plenty of support for 64bit.

Later I will post up what I use in linux that correlates to an app in windows. I know this is a bad thing to do because you shouldn’t look at Linux as a direct comparison to Windows since they are two completely different things, but what they hey why not.