SUPERGUIDE: The Open Source Challenge. How to replace Windows completely with Ubuntu.
We all know how far open source software has progressed, but has it come so far to not only challenge Windows, but replace it? Can you really install Linux and open source software in place of Windows, and want for nothing?
In the first of this multi-part series we send in Ashton Mills to take on the challenge of using nothing but Linux and open source software... for absolutely everything. Will he find nirvana in the process, or lose all his hair in frustration? Follow him in and find out.
When I was first given this task I had to sit and blink a few times, if for nothing else than dramatic pause. I'm a self-confessed Linux nut, as some of you may know, but even I'm cautious to do away with Windows completely. There's a reason I have a dual-boot Windows and Linux machine. Several of them, in fact.
Not unsurprisingly, Linux, and open source software in general, has had an image problem. It doesn't help that its inception by an uber-nerd and its subsequent adoption by bearded geeks the world over didn't lend it a certifiable authenticity.
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