First of all ” What are you doing with your new computer ?”  asks computer consultant D. Heppenstall.

People buy computers to run programs.  If the programs that you or your business use are all in the windows operating system – then windows is your easiest choice.  Why make things more complex than they need be.  It may be false economy like the Schmendrick you saved $ 2 on the cost of an item yet spent over  a tank of gas on driving between the various value village thrift stores.  On top of that he believed he saved in addition as it was “senior’s day”  and he received a 15 % added discount.  Your additional costs in terms of tech support , lost productivity  and aggravation are not worth the time and expenses involved.  If you are in a certain field such as graphics and there is a major preference in your industry to the Apple Macintosh system then that may be your best choice.  Software may be more expensive for Macs than windows yet you may have the licenses already – upgrades are cheap .  As well you have expertise and experience with that system as well as troubleshooting basic problems.

People use computers to run programs.  This includes the most used programs in the world – internet browsers and even mail programs such as outlook express.  If this is all that you do with your computer – Linux may be fine for you -  those programs are already installed in functional forms on a Linux computer with open source programs.   Firefox on a linux will not be that much different than firefox on windows.   There are lots of other open source browsing programs as well available. Just do not expect a direct version of Microsoft Internet Explorer for Linux – be it Ubuntu , Mandiva or any other of the major Linux distros.

Next take into account what kind of hardware that you  be running Linux on ?  That not only includes your computer itself – its motherboard , video sound card , network cards et al.  Wireless especially on Lunux can be a bitch to configer if not native on your Linux distro of choice.  Hardware that also has to be considered if you want to make the change to Linux ( some say upgrade)  in addition are printers , modems and network cards, scanners and even monitors.

Linux driver support is getting much better with major vendors such as HP ( Hewlett Packard ) for printers and scanners routinely providing Linux drivers and support documents for Linux distros ( but not the older Windows 98/ME operating system streams).  However take into account whether the available Linux hardware drivers support your particular Linux distro of choice.

In the end it is always best to make a copy ( ghost or clone backup) of your present hard drive or at the least swap hard drives with a replacement in order that you can restore your present operating system  if necessary.

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