My laptop had serious problems. The repair place put in a new hard drive. So now I have an opportunity. Do I continue with Windows and its programs or do I move to Linux? David Thornburg, an educational technologist, has been an advocate of using Linux; at last year’s NECC, he did session after session advocating Linux (UBuntu)
I have been using Open Office and and Firefox for the past two years. I am not a techie so I need easy to use programs. I am an educator who uses limited media outside of my work(mostly Windows Movie Maker to create genealogy “slideshows”and itunes for family genealogy’s recordings.
What opinions do people have about switching? Who has done it and can offer the pros and cons? Can an average person make the switch without being a techie? I await your thoughts.
Education with Technology Harry G. Tuttle 
