Tuesday, May 6, 2008

Open forum

The best thing about being into linux is that since its based on the free movement there are tons and tons of people to help out there. While working with linux in India wasn't always the best way to get things done as wifi access still has time to catchup over there.

In the US its a totally different scene though as whenever you encounter a problem or want some specific function to do you can just jump online into a forum and check it out over there because chances are that you may not be the only one having a query. This is the help that no windows manual or helpdesk can ever provide. You have average people, newbies helping each other out.

Since my days with Mandrake and Fedora I knew that online forums were the sort of place where one would get pretty much everything to be asked for. So I had absolutely no qualms about making my switch to Linux from Windows. The support system made the difference.

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