I’ve written a few articles about the move of my home PC to a Linux based configuration last year. I’m pretty pleased with the results, and I’ve been able to use that configuration for virtually all of the “work” I’ve done on the PC since then. I still don’t have some things working as well as I’d like – ripping DVDs and conerting them for the Creative Zen is something of a pain.
I still run a few applications under Windows – most notably Tax Calc which I use for (hopefully) about two hours a year to submit my tax return. Let’s see if I can beat that this year!
Looking back it was the beginning of May last year that I did the switch, so this is about 8 months on. In that time I’ve added a second monitor (giving me 2, 22″ widescreen monitors that stretch halfway across my desk). I’ve upgraded to Ubuntu 7.10 with a certain amount of grief over VMware device drivers. I’ve even installed Ubuntu as the primary OS on my main work PC, though it’s main job is running SSH sessions and VMware hosts, so that’s not so remarkable. The lapdog still runs Windows. Because Corporate IT Says It Will.
The one disappointment so far is that I tried KDE4.0 and decided it wasn’t quite ready for prime time. It’s very pretty, it’s worth a look, and as long as you don’t uninstall the existing KDE3 setup, you can switch back by logging out and changing your session type back. Instructions here – worked perfectly for me.