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Story: 2004: The year of desktop Linux?

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Posted by: Anonymous (Wednesday 24 December 2003, 6:00 PM)

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As an ordinary user who loves to experiment with trying to use Linux at home, I find that I can use it for practically everything I do on my PC except use it for voice and video chat using IM's like Yahoo. Once that is possible I will see no reason to boot into Windows again. Till then I keep switching back and forth between OSS applications like OpenOffice.org and Mozilla on Windows and Linux.
I use my PC for web browsing, Email, chatting, reading and updating documents in Word and Excel.
Recently I bought a Palm and notice that Linux support for the device is not as extensive as Windows. So that may be yet a negative as on date. But the future is as bright as ever.

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