I want to tell you something that I observe very often with
change. If someone makes a change because they see potential in that
change, they will find a way to make it work. When they make a change
for other reasons - they fail.

When I first tried linux I did a duel boot. Yea, that was ok. Most of my
time was spent on the XP side using the apps that I know. I didnt learn
much about linux at all.

Two years later I got out of bed, turned on my monitor and discovered
that overnight for some reason XP had decided that my profile was a
problem and lost it. It lost my second hd with ALL my data on it. After
a month of trying to recover I gave up and made a swift move to Ubuntu.

Making that jump was important because, once you do - you CANT go back.
You have to move forward.

What Im getting at is, so many "think" they cant get along without this
app or that app but in reality, they choose not to. There are apps out
there but, like many things in life, you have to go find them. You
definitally didnt just get all these apps on Windows -> YOU had to
PURCHASE them. On linux, all you have to do is find it and get some help
installing it.

So, almost without fail - those who say they they cant get along without
this particular app are the ones who leave this list and move back to
windows. I bet we have had at least 8 I know of - that have told us so -
in the last two months.


To help you move forward why not tell us some apps that you have on
windows and we - as a group - can make suggestions for apps on Ubuntu.