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Linux Guy and Windows Guy Walk a Mile in Each Other's Shoes
LinuxInsider — ... . 'Penguins and Crazy Beards' Visiting Linux land for the first time, meanwhile, was zMogo's AshPringle, who spent his week on Ubuntu as part of a New Year's Resolution. "Step one is to research what Linux has to offer nowadays," AshPringle began in his Day One report . "I know absolutely nothing about it, other than the fact that it is associated with penguins and guys with crazy beards, and that I remember it having all the subtlety and ease of use of a sledgehammer to the patience-center of your brain." Could one ask for a more perfect comparison? We couldn't suppress ...

A Newbie Switches to Ubuntu: What Worked and What Didn't? [OStatic]
GigaOM Network — ... I got a kick out of reading AshPringle's series about his New Year's resolution to switch from Windows and the Mac to Linux for a week. (You can find the daily entries at the bottom of this first entry.) Remember how, when you first took the SAT, people told you to "go with your first answer--it's probably correct?" This series is by no means written by a Linux expert, but several of the off-the-cuff impressions about using Ubuntu, add-ons and more are interesting precisely because they are off-the-cuff. Here were ...

A Newbie Switches to Ubuntu: What Worked and What Didn't?
OStatic blogs — ... I got a kick out of reading AshPringle's series about his New Year's resolution to switch from Windows and the Mac to Linux for a week. (You can find the daily entries at the bottom of this first entry.) Remember how, when you first took the SAT, people told you to "go with your first answer--it's probably correct?" This series is by no means written by a Linux expert, but several of the off-the-cuff impressions about using Ubuntu, add-ons and more are interesting precisely because they are off-the-cuff. Here were ...