I've been exclusively Linux at home and for running my amateur satellite station for a number of years now. Running Enlightenment as a window manager rocks hard.
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Originally posted by jaguar
Interesting. People who said browsers were a problem have a point, while Konqueror (which i typing this from) its generally very good, some websites kill it (including randomly, the search on the linux tucows site!) and there is no version of flash for it.
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Hmmm. I have no browser problems. I do run more than one browser, but then I did that on Windows too.
Maybe you need to upgrade your Konqueror. I'm on 2.1.1, and it supports all Netscape/Mozilla plug-ins, including Flash and Java. There's also a facility for having it lie to specific sites as to what browser it is, too. This can help where the web programmer did something braindead.
My "dogfood" browser (the one I use most of the time--comes from the expression among Netscape developers "We eat our own dogfood.") is Mozilla 0.9.2. I keep Netscape 4.76 around to work around occasional bugs in Mozilla. Moz Mail at the 0.9.2 level has a few annoying bugs in folder management, and I use folders extensively, so these days my default mail client is Kmail, which is quite usable. I'm planning to go back to Moz Mail, probably the next time I bother to upgrade Mozilla. But for now with Kmail when I click on a link in an email it calls in Konqueror, whioch works well enough that I haven't bothered to change it. No biggie.
A *surprising* number of Windows apps work right out of the box with WINE, by the way. And game addicts will be interested in the current project to port DirectX V7 to WINE. FOr now I have the Linux port of Descent 2, and Flight Gear Flight Sim....this satisfies my gaming needs for now.