Are you tired of paying hundreds or thousands of dollars for your computer's software? Tired of having to buy upgrades, and new hardware to run the upgrades? Tired of crashes, security flaws, cyber-attacks, and worrying if your computer is safe to use? Had enough of license agreements, lock-downs, and restrictions on what you can do with your computer? Worried about your business being sued for making a careless copy?
It doesn't have to be that way. You can live your life free of Microsoft, and free of their thousand and one petty annoyances. And you can save money in the process.
Presenter: Brad Rodriguez
Technical Level: Brad will aim this workshop toward the non-technical participants and plans to make it easy enough for his mother to understand.
Outline:
A. Why say goodbye?
B. The "Half-Caf": when you have to keep Windows, get rid of the rest.
- Security: replacing Outlook and Internet Explorer
- Savings: replacing Microsoft Office
- Other replacements for Microsoft applications
C. The "Decaf": kicking the Microsoft habit completely.
- Linux, Unix, or Mac?
- Choosing a Linux distribution
- Installing a Linux distribution (very briefly)
- Linux applications software for every need
- If you simply must run a Windows application
- Finding support
D. Now is the time.
