RE: Linux Recommendations

["BUTLER, Tony, FM" <roaming@xxxxxxx>]

> > Thanks Nick, but why?????
> > Lemme see:
> > 1/  Pay for and install windoze on your machine to run
> word, IE, Excel etc
> > etc
> > or:
>
> and get a flaky, flaky, flaky ..................oh it crashed

Are you trying to tell me that it is LESS likely to crash because you are
running it on top of a linux distro inside win4lin?
Yeah, I can see that alright :-D

And real windoze users use nice stable win2k, not me/98/95 etc..... :D

> have authored in Word, Excel etc, oh and windows reboots in
> about 5 seconds :-)

You shouldn't need to reboot it normally - probably having all those extra
layers between windoze and the hardware is making it unstable :]

> > Micro$shaft still get their license fees, win4lin get their
> money and the
> > linux vendor gets jack diddly unless you buy a support package
from
> > them.....
>
> this is the only problem I can see - I can now use evolution
> instead of outlook, but
> still have to use Word, Excel etc, and it's very useful to be
> able to run any old windows app at any time.

So again, the advantage is........?


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