Sharon Machlis over at Computerworld went for it--she made the switch to a Linux desktop and chronicled the whole thing. I've tried this a number of times in the past and found almost exactly the same issues she did--need for more drivers, photoshop and plug and play...otherwise the experience is shockingly good. My guess is that we'll see a quality version of OO.org (note that the good one is the one that Novel Sharon Machlis over at Computerworld went for it–she made the switch to a Linux desktop and chronicled the whole thing. I’ve tried this a number of times in the past and found almost exactly the same issues she did–need for more drivers, photoshop and plug and play…otherwise the experience is shockingly good. My guess is that we’ll see a quality version of OO.org (note that the good one is the one that Novell ships and hasn’t contributed the code) or something very similar in the next year, or better yet we’ll see browser based apps that replace MS Office entirely. I had this same conversation with Jason Maynard today about how we’d love to switch to a tiny Thinkpad running Linux if only we had all the apps we need. I still find the MacBookPro a bit large, but I won’t go back to Windows. Someone needs to figure out the app thing so Ubuntu can take over all the Windows desktops. Previously: Lenovo to preload SUSE on Thinkpad ComputerWorld: Desktop Linux: If we build it, will they come? Economic drivers for Linux on the desktop Open Source