Tips on moving to Linux?

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Remember netbooks?  There was a year or two when they were very popular and then they  vanished from the market.  They were initially available with Linux as an option.  There was a story about a woman who was a uni student who accidentally bought a Linux netbook, she said that because it was Linux and she couldn't figure it out she was going to have to drop out of uni and become a prostitute and eventually die in a plague infested port screaming "hello sailor!" or something like that.  I remember that the press make a big deal out of it....

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Ah, found the story, she apparently didn't die in an unknown port city heroine den shouting "hello sailor" but the rest is pretty much true.


http://www.wkow.com/Global/story.asp?S=9667184&nav=menu1362_2

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You know 8.1 in Windows isn't dreadful.  It's actually pretty good on a touch screen and not terrible with a trackpad/mouse.  The Windows store apps now appear on the status bar, you can shrink them and close them, there are visual clues on the start tiles screen to help you get around.  The desktop actually makes some sense now instead of appearing to be a vestigial appendage.

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Except the Microsoft save Apple myth is just that.  http://www.zdnet.com/blog/apple/stop-the-lies-the-day-that-microsoft-saved-apple/7036