We're Going To Try A Little Experiment ...

Our photography expert Franck Mée has given himself the job of changing my computing habits.  I've decided to accept his challenge and spend a whole week without touching Microsoft Windows.  Instead, I'll be using Linux—and, wherever possible, open-source software.

For the time being, he's working on choosing alternatives to my favourite programs.  Photoshop is out, but Gimp is in.  Will my 3D graphics card be supported?  What about my monitor in portrait mode?  What will I use instead of Outlook in Linux?

At the same time, Franck and Sam McGeever have hatched an even trickier test: as well as using open-source software, I'm also going to use web apps whenever I can!  That means not only no Excel, but that I'll have to use a Google Spreadsheet (or something else ...) instead.  It sounds pretty tough, given how complicated some of my formulae are, but we'll see!


We'll have the first episode of this little experiment soon, when this die-hard Windows user sits down in front of Linux for the first time.


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