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child · 11-18-2006, 08:35 AM

I am just a normal desktop user and i am using Debian Linux for two years (though Ubuntu linux is recommended for beginners.)

It is a little harder when you first begin but daily maintanance is a lot easier than windows. Learning curve is - well it depends but - like a week to a month. You will have many similar programs like Firefox, Openoffice suite (Like MS office, word excel etc) and many multimedia software.

In windows if you have a problem in your system you wont have a solution (you usually have to reinstall the whole system), in Linux you always have a solution and usually with a lot of alternatives. Irony is that this makes Linux a little harder for avarage user.

11-18-2006, 08:35 AM	#4 (permalink)
child Member Join Date: Nov 2006 Posts: 36	I am just a normal desktop user and i am using Debian Linux for two years (though Ubuntu linux is recommended for beginners.) It is a little harder when you first begin but daily maintanance is a lot easier than windows. Learning curve is - well it depends but - like a week to a month. You will have many similar programs like Firefox, Openoffice suite (Like MS office, word excel etc) and many multimedia software. In windows if you have a problem in your system you wont have a solution (you usually have to reinstall the whole system), in Linux you always have a solution and usually with a lot of alternatives. Irony is that this makes Linux a little harder for avarage user.