Hi tom.
linux always seems hyper complex to me. I know for instance you explained
the compiling business, but that doesn't stop everything I read about linux
being far beyond my technical knolidge, ---- not to mention in some ways
using language that is a little specific to linux users, eg, all this
business about "unix flavours" and such, that makes itrather difficult to
find out about.
Also, while it might be different for developers, most of what I personally
do on a pc is handled by free software anyway, indeed the only software I've
bought have been games and the two avg utilities, eg, winamp for media
playing, 7zip for unzipping etc.
I happen to need a copy of office, ---- or at least ms word, to write my
thesis on sinse it is what my university use, but once that is done I could
probably live with just wordpad on another machine sinse for writing
gamebooks etc, it's quite sufficient to my needs and I know there is a free
version of office with a spell check that will probably open the documents I
already have if I needed it to.
The biggy however is games, and not just audio games either, but things like
dos text adventures, eamon deluxe etc, stuff I couldn't! do on linux, which
again is the reason I'll probably stick with windows sinse I can't change
the format of wht is already there.
Beware the grue!
Dark.
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