On Sat, Feb 16, 2002 at 10:19:19AM -0600, The Fool wrote: > Ask the average human being to do this. He will stare back at you > blankly.
Ask the someone to fix a registry problem. Same. At least with linux, if you are willing to read a little documentation, you can do it. > Theres always 'windows update'. (I know, I know). That doesn't update all your installed applications. > BS. For every program written for linux there are several hundred > written for windows. In particular things like 'autoCAD', 'WinAMP', > etc. WinAMP is available for linux. It's called xmms. There are good CAD programs for linux. Do you know how much AutoCAD costs? QCad and Varkon are free on linux: ( http://www.qcad.org/ , http://www.varkon.com/dl_linux.htm) For every type of program on Windows, there are free alternatives for Linux. > and 99.99% of all games. I said "But for home productivity use, linux can do 99% of what you can do with Windows". That clealry does not include games. And I don't play many games, so I can't say much about it. But note that there are alternatives to Direct X on linux: http://www.transgaming.com/ http://linux.oreillynet.com/pub/a/linux/2001/09/21/sdl.html http://sourceforge.net/projects/dxglwrap > > for home productivity use, linux can do 99% of what you can do with > > Windows, and it does it much better in most cases. If you need to > > exchange files with Windows users, that isn't really a problem: .xls > > and .rtf programs work quite well in Linux, and if you just can't > > live without MS Office (.doc, .ppt, .etc), there is always Open > > Office http://www.openoffice.org/ which gives you file compatibility > > with MS Office. > > Ew. Get your micro$oft office off of me. You lost me here. -- "Erik Reuter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.erikreuter.com/
