A date with Linux

My office laptop is on dual boot with Fedora Core 9 and Windows XP Professional. I use Linux at times but not continuously. So yesterday I decided to use Linux at office and see if I will reach a situation where I can do with out Windows. Configuring the IMs and Mail took some time. And next comes playing mp3, support which has been removed due to legal issues. Not knowing what to do have to take the help of Linux Forums on the net and I got what I need in few minutes the sequence of commands to execute to install and play :) Cool and I don’t miss playing my mp3s now. And I went on using at till the evening with out any problems. As my work is also on Linux servers – No Microsoft Technologies:), I didn’t face any problem from that front too.

At the end of the day the experience was quite good. 

Getting used to the fonts, icons and the UI was a bit difficult. Tough there are no technical problems even by evening I was feeling like the UI needs some more control in customization. May be it is already there and I don’t know how to…..

And the animations on the desktop are just awesome. Not sure if MS can provide such features ever. The switching over to the next desktop, dragging and what else … everything almost was really good.  I was playing with them when ever I got bored. 

There are too many options for the utilities required, which confuses what to use and you will end up evaluating all of them.  But almost all the things you need (for a developer) are there by default including the Project Management Tool which is lot better in terms of usability than the Microsoft Project though the options are less. 

All it takes is a better UI and nothing else to make the Linux user-friendly.