Things to Consider before using Linux

As you have probably gathered from my previous posts I have been doing a lot of investigating into the current Linux distributions and building 3 servers based around them. The server editions of Centos 6, have been stable and secure the way I expected them to. To be honest now that we have the servers installed at the proprietary software running, I feel one hell of a lot less stressed about being hacked and viruses. I have also been looking at a desktop distribution of Linux that I could replace my windows desktop with. Therefore removing yet another entry point for hackers and or spy ware etc. I mentioned BSD and it ran great as did quite a few others. But I learnt some things you need to take into consideration before diving in. Do you have another machine for windows or can you dual boot for the programs that don't have a Linux version Are you prepared to try new programs What desktop do you want to run, as there are several out there. Try ...