How Switching to Linux Can Make Your Computing Quicker, Cheaper and Easier - Total the savings
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Getting your hands on a copy of Photoshop will set you back another $145. GIMP, the open source version, is free. So if you went this far with your Windows set-up, you spent a total of $494 -- but not a penny if you went with the Linux version.
That means with Linux, you'd have $494 in your hands instead of some other company's profit margin. What can you do with $494 dollars? Well,l you could:
Buy yourself 141 cups of coffee at Starbucks.
See 24 movies, with a date (snacks not included).
By six one-day “Magic Your Way” passes to a Disney theme park.
Buy a brand-new iPod iTouch (32 GB) and still have $193 left over to spend on music, movies and apps.
Buy a copy of the Sunday edition of the New York Times every week for 98 weeks. That's 1.9 years!
So, now that you know how much you can be saving we can talk about how Linux can be both faster and easier. After all, saving money is only a value if you can use the system easily. If it was hard to use, any savings that you gained would be lost in a sea of frustration and wasted time.
Obviously, that's not what you want from a computer that you plan to use every day. It doesn't matter whether you're using the system for work or fun (or both); you want an efficient tool that will help you do your thing, not bog you down in esoterica. So let's move on to how Linux can make your computing life quicker.
