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2nd January 2005, 06:11 AM
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I've finally made the full switch!
After a few months of messing around, first with knoppix, then suse, then fc2, and finally to fc3, I've decided to move entirely to linux. Today, I deleted my windows partition.
feels good... =)
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2nd January 2005, 06:17 AM
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great way to start the new year. 
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2nd January 2005, 06:20 AM
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Congrats on your conversion. I have been using Linux exclusively for some time, and I see no reason to use Windows.
--SN
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2nd January 2005, 06:24 AM
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welcome to the club
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2nd January 2005, 06:40 AM
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Unfortunally for me I have to use MS at work and I do depend on it for some apps. Dont want to mess with wine so ocassianally I boot into it. But my laptop and desktop and home are fedora. My kids still use xp.
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2nd January 2005, 06:52 AM
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yeah, there are still some programs which I can't use in linux (cinema 4d...) so I have winxp running under vmware in case i need it.
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2nd January 2005, 07:02 AM
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Oh yeah,
I want to thank all of you for being so helpfull over the past few months. I couldn't have done it without you.
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2nd January 2005, 07:30 AM
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Way to go. I remember when I switched over, what a day!
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2nd January 2005, 07:38 AM
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I'm fairly new to linux aswell. I have kept my windows partition only because of all the songs I have in it,  Nice to see more people leaving windows behind. (funny that Fedora Core 3 did it for me too...untill then I was just playing aeound with Linux)
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2nd January 2005, 02:53 PM
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yeah~! I've also made a nearly full switch to Linux few days ago! 
feel so exciting and satisfied, because I want linux to be my daily desktop few years ago, but just realized recently
now, nearly most of the software/applications I used under windows in the past can be substituted with freewares under linux, and they are even more powerful, beautiful, friendly and customizable~!
keeping windows is just because of the visual studio assignments from school... 
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2nd January 2005, 04:07 PM
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Congratulations, mjman!
I just made the switch myself over the holidays.
I'm curious what motivated you to change, and what gave you the most trouble migrating?
For me, the motivation was the laptop I received in the mail from my mother that was riddled with viruses and trojans. I wanted to see if Linux had matured enough to be a viable alternative for her. (I'm still undecided on this, but I have switched over my laptop to get some experience.)
Things I struggled with the most were getting my Canon camera to work
http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=30536
and using cdrecord (see my post in this thread)
http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=30584
My biggest "ah ha" was learning how easy it is to use Yum (once configured correctly).
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3rd January 2005, 05:07 PM
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Originally Posted by SuperNu
Congrats on your conversion. I have been using Linux exclusively for some time, and I see no reason to use Windows.
--SN
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same here 
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3rd January 2005, 05:23 PM
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Originally Posted by mjman
After a few months of messing around, first with knoppix, then suse, then fc2, and finally to fc3, I've decided to move entirely to linux. Today, I deleted my windows partition.
feels good... =)
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Hope all goes well for you, mjman
I too made a complete switch (not thru any intention, i screwed up my installation)
but the good news is that i really like this whole linux thing (i am a fc2 user for a full week now)
again, congrats
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3rd January 2005, 05:24 PM
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well i made the full conversion by mistake messed up my windows partition couldnt get it working again. so i just ended up deleting the windows partition. Oh well i havent looked backed love using FC3.
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3rd January 2005, 05:26 PM
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what motivated me to change?
my xp was bootleg and it was acting screwy and i didnt want to fork over $200 for windows and $200 for office
plus, i thought it was high-time i stopped sucking off the windows nipple and got my hands dirty into learning my computer
so i went out and spent $50 for the book with four FC2 cds and the rest is history
(and so is my windows)
anyone know if i will ever see "My Documents" folder again, i would love to get some stuff off of there
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