2 years of Open Source Software - The Chief Happiness Officer Blog

2 years of Open Source Software - The Chief Happiness Officer Blog About 2 years ago I got myself a new PC, and since then Ive only use one piece of software that I paid for and thats Windows. Every other program on my computer is open source and free, and it has worked perfectly. I havent missed Outlook, Microsoft Office, Dreamweaver or any of those other programs I used to use. Instead Ive been using: openoffice.org Reads and writes Microsoft Office files and works just as well. Contains a Word, Excel and PowerPoint clone all of which have all the features youll ever need. And you can save your documents as pdf files. Audacity An excellent program for recording and editing sound. I used it to mix music and to edit an audio book. nvu HTML editor. REALLY easy to use. Firefox The best browser around. Thunderbird A mail program that kicks Outlooks butt. Filezilla A killer ftp client. Azureus The best bittorrent client around. Has the best user interface of any program Ive ever seen. egroupware Additionally we use egroupware in The Happy At Work Project to share calendars, adress books and to manage some of our websites. Not only is all the software mentioned here free and open source, its also available on multiple platforms, so if I decide to switch to a Linux or Apple machine tomorrow, I can continue to use the same programs and to work on the same files. So why are you still paying Microsoft and others for software? Thanks for visiting my blog. If you're new here, you should check out this list of my 10 most popular articles. And if you want more great tips and ideas you should check out our newsletter about happiness at work. It's great and it's free :-)Share this:LinkedInFacebookTwitterRedditPinterest Related