Running PC Pro on Ubuntu: the verdict

“Yesterday, something remarkable happened. Our entire editorial
team migrated to Ubuntu overnight and – by and large –
it was business as usual. The website ran as normal, magazine copy
was still written, we (just about) fulfilled our day jobs. (You can
see how PC Pro’s Ubuntu day unfolded here.)

“Several of the many excellent comments on yesterday’s live blog
suggested our day-long experiment wasn’t a fair test; that no IT
manager worth his space in the car park would migrate an entire
office to a new operating system with almost no preparation or
staff training. They were right. Yet what our somewhat reckless
experiment revealed is that Ubuntu could cope. On a rag-bag
selection of laptops and desktops, installed as a Windows “app”, a
dual-boot or within a virtual machine, Ubuntu worked (sometimes at
the second or third attempt) every time.”

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