Sherri is a Cat
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One of my biggest concerns before ditching the Giant was being able to use AutoCAD. In one of my very first threads someone told me about the best alternative he found. Like me, he actually uses and needs to keep using CAD apps <--- Lookie there, I'm not saying software anymore! I looked back through old threads to find it.
Those old posts reminded me how scared I was! I expected to be using both Linux and the Giant for at least a year or two before taking the final plunge. I thought I would have to spend a lot of time figuring how to do things that were second nature with the Giant. After I finally figured out how, then I would have to remember how.
I thought I would have notebooks all over my desk within easy reach every time I need to do anything. I had visions of my Linux notes mixed in with papers for every other part of my life. My cats would walk over, lay on and play with my notes.
Those thougnts were quickly followed by nightmarish panic attacks.
I wouldn't be able to find the exact note I need RIGHT NOW because this thing I'm trying to do has to be done RIGHT NOW! I saw books and cats flying through the air as I scrambled to find that one specific note that would tell me exactly how to accomplish my urgent task! My coffee would get knocked over. When I finaly find it, my note would only be blurry ink and coffee.
I would break down in hysterics and fall to the floor in tears because my life is over! If only I'd found that note before I knocked my coffee over and now I can't drink it because it's all over my desk and I REALLY NEED MY COFFEE NOW....
Moving to Linux wasn't even close to that hard.
I thought I would have to suffer the Giant for at least a year before burying him for good.
It took one night.
I haven't looked back and I haven't regretted it.
Those old posts reminded me how scared I was! I expected to be using both Linux and the Giant for at least a year or two before taking the final plunge. I thought I would have to spend a lot of time figuring how to do things that were second nature with the Giant. After I finally figured out how, then I would have to remember how.
I thought I would have notebooks all over my desk within easy reach every time I need to do anything. I had visions of my Linux notes mixed in with papers for every other part of my life. My cats would walk over, lay on and play with my notes.
Those thougnts were quickly followed by nightmarish panic attacks.
I wouldn't be able to find the exact note I need RIGHT NOW because this thing I'm trying to do has to be done RIGHT NOW! I saw books and cats flying through the air as I scrambled to find that one specific note that would tell me exactly how to accomplish my urgent task! My coffee would get knocked over. When I finaly find it, my note would only be blurry ink and coffee.
I would break down in hysterics and fall to the floor in tears because my life is over! If only I'd found that note before I knocked my coffee over and now I can't drink it because it's all over my desk and I REALLY NEED MY COFFEE NOW....
Moving to Linux wasn't even close to that hard.
I thought I would have to suffer the Giant for at least a year before burying him for good.
It took one night.
I haven't looked back and I haven't regretted it.
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