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I spent a week booted into only FreeBSD, and met with a lot of problems. Many of them could be overcome, but the fact of the matter is that I was simply less productive under FreeBSD than I was under Windows, mainly because of little issues. Things such as keyboard bindings and interface issues that were not consistent between applications, the file associations mechanism was almost working as it should, but it wasn’t obeyed by all applications.
As much as I love OpenOffice.org, it was simply not able to properly handle all of our work-related doucments. It will take some more investigating as to why, but OO.org on Windows formatted the documents properly, most of the time, but on FreeBSD they were mangled.
I’m going to try putting together another PC and retasking an unused KVM so that I might have a FreeBSD box and Windows box at my desk. Perhaps that way I can have the best of both worlds, and do some more experimenting while not losing any productivity…