I'll start by saying that one of the first things I did today was to open up my computer using Windows, just because I had to do one annotation in OneNote. Afterward I switched back to Linux and been working since.
The first thing I did was to attempt to open my personal life goals journal (done in Word ooxml format) using OpenOffice. Bad Luck. The formatting of the document (had pictures, text boxes and all that stuff) was really messed up, so I started looking out for a way to install Microsoft Office 2007/2010 on my Linux OS. The idea of this experiment is not to get 100% open source (after all by the Open Source Purity standards I shouldn't even have Ubuntu Restricted Extras and the propietary drivers installed, after all) but to get a computer in a really good condition for a regular user to be able to use it without having to put up a lot of effort. After all the Ubuntu idea is to have a computer to be able to be used by everybody and we have to take into account also that there are a lot of things that are propietary/company made.
On the other hand I had a particular problem yesterday, I started using my computer on battery and without the cooling board (it has fans connected via USB) to check out how long would the battery last. It lasted about the same as using it with windows and seconds after I connected it back again to power the computer shot down because of overheating (This HP Tablet PCs really have a overheating problem). and using it today I've felt it warms up as much as using it on windows. So there I have one mith debunked, Linux computers can use the same resources as Windows ones.
So far the experiment has been really good. I haven't had the need or desire to get to windows far beyond the OneNote (and posibly any job I HAVE to do with MS Office and can't be done with anything else (Sorry folks but though OpenOffice does a nice job I receive lots of ooxml type files that just don't open right on OpenOffice).
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For those who ask what kind of job I'm doing to know how much power I'm asking to my computer:
To quickly resume what has been my work so far. I've worked with three virtual desktops provided by the compiz interface, managing both (at first just one) of the cores on a on demand/power save energy profile and listening to music or having a movie played in one desktop; chatting via aMSN (really cool program) and browsing the time loss pages (facebook, mail, etc) on the second desktop and using a browser with 5 to 15 open tabs on the third desktop.
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