LXer: 2000 was the “year of the Linux Desktop” for me

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05-30-2006, 06:54 AM	#1
LXer LXer NewsBot Registered: Dec 2005 Posts: 128,376 Rep:	LXer: 2000 was the “year of the Linux Desktop” for me Published at LXer: I still see people arguing about whether GNU/Linux is “ready for the desktop”. The truth is, it really depends... For me, I switched almost “cold turkey” from Windows 3.1 to Debian “Slink” in about 1999 or 2000 (at the time, I liked to say I “upgraded from Win 3.1 to GNU/Linux”). Read More...

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