Subj : FidoGazette Vol 12 no 04 Page: 5
To   : All
From : Janis Kracht
Date : Wed Jan 24 2018 14:07:54

    Moving to Linux from dated Windows machines
    A tale about the decision to adopt Linux when the older Windows
    machines started falling behind.

    By  Michael Korotaev
    Published at Opensource.com

    Every day, while working in the marketing department at
    ONLYOFFICE, I see Linux users discussing our office productivity
    software on the internet.  Our products are popular among Linux
    users, which made me curious about using Linux as an everyday
    work tool.  My old Windows XP-powered computer was an obstacle
    to performance, so I started reading about Linux systems
    (particularly Ubuntu) and decided to try it out as an
    experiment.  Two of my colleagues joined me.

    Why Linux?

    We needed to make a change, first, because our old systems were
    not enough in terms of performance: we experienced regular
    crashes, an overload every time more than two apps were active,
    a 50% chance of freezing when a machine was shut down, and so
    forth.  This was rather distracting to our work, which meant we
    were considerably less efficient than we could be.

    Upgrading to newer versions of Windows was an option, too, but
    that is an additional expense, plus our software competes
    against Microsoft's office suite.  So that was an ideological
    question, too.

    [...]

    Read more of this article at Opensource.com:
    https://tinyurl.com/y86bmjlx

    FIDOGAZETTE  Vol 12 No 04    Page  5         January 24, 2018


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