Weening oneself off Windows
Microsoft has a lot in common with crack. From what I have heard, when one tries to drop an addicition to crack, the beginning is always the hardest part. One finds oneself with big gaps in one’s life that used to be filled with crack. The biggest challenge becomes filling these holes left in one’s life by the absence of the drug.
It is in this way that switching from Windows to Linux is very similar to giving up an addiction to crack. At first, the world seems to be over when one realizes that Microsoft Office and Adobe Creative Suite 3 (CS3) do not work in Linux AT ALL. There is no simple How-To to get it working, there just isn’t. The sooner one realizes that Microsoft software is gone from one’s life and not returning, the better off he or she will be in the long run.
As someone who was born and raised on the Microsoft platform, coming to this realization was nothing minor. If I rememebr correctly, I spent many a sleepless night with the shakes and repeated trips to the toilet…. or maybe that was when I quit crack…. (totally kidding, I never did smoke crack in my many years as a drug addict). But, regardless, I am not being fecicious when I say that giving up the beast (Microsoft) was one of the hardest changes I have ever had to adjust to.
But, in the end, I did it (for the most part).
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