Windoze daze
My office just migrated to WindowsXP. It's really fun watching a whole bunch of 12:00 users being confronted with new software.
Basic functionality has not changed; all that has changed, for most users, is the look...and yet people are utterly baffled. Considering the amount of confusion this is generating, I wonder if it might not be equally difficult/easy to migrate to an entirely new Operating Systemm, like, say Ubuntu.
That's not to say that we don't use *nix here in the office. At least some workstations (in the IT department) have multiboot-capable bootloaders, which boot Windows, FreeBSD, Solaris.
Amusingly, I am not very badly affected. My "home" folder--whatever Windows calls ~/ and ~/Desktop-- has been migrated as well, so my puTTY and WinVi are still there.
Of course, I wish that I could run cygwin. Apparently, with Cygwin, I can fully GNOME-ify my desktop...but I'm fairly sure that the IT guys would kill me if I did that.
Basic functionality has not changed; all that has changed, for most users, is the look...and yet people are utterly baffled. Considering the amount of confusion this is generating, I wonder if it might not be equally difficult/easy to migrate to an entirely new Operating Systemm, like, say Ubuntu.
That's not to say that we don't use *nix here in the office. At least some workstations (in the IT department) have multiboot-capable bootloaders, which boot Windows, FreeBSD, Solaris.
Amusingly, I am not very badly affected. My "home" folder--whatever Windows calls ~/ and ~/Desktop-- has been migrated as well, so my puTTY and WinVi are still there.
Of course, I wish that I could run cygwin. Apparently, with Cygwin, I can fully GNOME-ify my desktop...but I'm fairly sure that the IT guys would kill me if I did that.