Richard Reynolds wrote: > *it would be nice if linux really worked with more than 1 of my 10 printers > ( 2 of which there is no excuse for lack of support)
Which printers are they? They are probably win-printers in which case there is a very good reason why they do not work. > *it would be nice if it supported w/o hacking all of the features of my > laptop .... (though not a HUGE deal) This, like most of the problems you cite, is due to the proprietary and non-standard nature of a lot of the hardware and software out there that Linux has to find ways to work with. An unfortunate situation but a pretty good reason, I think. Its not like anyone has been negligent or lazy. Your frustrations should be directed at MS and the other evil-doers of the world who complicate your life with bad technology. > *a presentation software package (like powerpoint) that worked !!! lets face > it when im at work trying to run one on linux and its not doing what I want, > I look bad! or if one of the other people in the room says "hey why didnt > you do" ... "like I did in powerpoint" again I look bad! OpenOffice Impress does not do what you need? > * it would be nice if i could handle excel and access files better, again I > cant say to my clients "sorry I dont run M$", and most dont understand that > either excel is the wrong tool for the job or that access isnt a tool :D OpenOffice doesn't handle them well enough? I know it does Excel pretty well in OO. Never tried Access. > * full support for my scanner (though really its close ....) Another proprietary issue, most likely. Someone out there is probably working hard to reverse engineer your scanner trying to get those last few details worked out so you will be happy. > * better video editing would be nice Yes, that would be nice. Not aware of any video editing apps for Linux. I guess not many people have really needed them before. > * REAL data recovery software (all the good packages are m$ dos and or M$ > windows based) and on that I wouldnt mind shelling out $,$$$ but it had > better work the first time just like the packages that run in/on M$ do. What sort of data recovery software? I've used Linux for 12 years both personally and professionally and never needed much beyond what comes with the distro. > * email though in reality I dont like the M$ versions either I end up using Linux tons of email stuff. If you mean mail reader I am thoroughly enjoying Thunderbird. Just wish I could use vi or emacs as the editor instead of the lame editor it comes with. > 3, OE (using now, on laptop) outlook and pine, and using all 3 is getting > can we say OLD!!! Not sure what this has to do with Linux. > * a FAST simple image viewer like acdsee, though in reality i have not tried > out any in the last 6 months or so .... so they could have gotten better I use "display". Works great. Image viewers are definitely not lacking. There are a zillion. > * and though this is more of a dystro and ME problem, it would be nice if I > could get rid of all of the server/multi user stuff. granted I like it on a > few machines, but back to my laptop the only user is ME, if I am going to do > something stupid im gona do it with or without having to type su - to do > so!!! a note from experience You can easily just log in as root for everything if you insist on shooting yourself in the foot. > * a good FlightSim would be nice, and full support for 2 monitors and my > joystick/flightstick whichamacallit (in the flightsim) FlightGear flight sim is supposed to be top-notch although I haven't tried it because I'm not much of a gamer. -- Tracy R Reed http://copilotconsulting.com -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
