On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 07:36, Carroll Grigsby wrote: > On Monday 20 October 2003 11:02 pm, rikona wrote: > > Hello Carroll, > > > > Sunday, October 19, 2003, 9:16:16 PM, you wrote: > > >> Two machines, or dual boot? Run MS Publisher only when she MUST do > > >> it, and run ONLY that on Win. Email, surf, news, etc, in linux. > > > > CG> Good advice, but isn't it a litle hypocritical for someone who > > CG> uses The Bat, a Windows e-mail client? > > > > Not from my view. I would DEARLY like to find equals, in linux, for > > all the software I run, and abandon M$ entirely. Problem is, I like > > TheBat better than anything I have seen in linux. > > > > Much as I dislike M$, I still view the computer as a tool, and will > > stick with the best tools, even if they happen to run under M$. :-( > > Rikona: > I was just teasing, and no harm was intended. Luckily, I'm in a position where > I don't _need_ any MS stuff, and sometimes I like to gloat about it. > -- cmg > ... Hee. I don't let my MS-using cohorts off that easy. The fact is, the longer I work in this industry, the closer to Stallman my attitude gets. I'm willing to make sacrifices in order to use free software. Windows is slower in VMWare than native; I don't care, because I only use the VMWare image when I absolutely have to. OOo is clunkier than MS Office; so what? It gets the job done, it's open source and it improves by leaps and bounds with every version since its release to open source. The Bat! might be a really really good email client, but I can't even imagine how it could be enough better than Evo for me to use it.
The flip-side of this attitude is that I get access to apps that blow their MS counterparts out of the water. Having used Gaim and Trillian side by side, Trillian is junk, horrible UI. XMMS vs WinAmp? Hello, what were they thinking at Nullsoft? Evolution next to Outlook is too obvious for words, even with Evo's rough edges. -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture...
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