John Oliver wrote:
On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 02:30:00PM -0700, Lan Barnes wrote:
On Thu, April 10, 2008 2:26 pm, SJS wrote:
begin quoting James G. Sack (jim) as of Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 01:41:23PM
-0700:
[snip]
I kinda like to know what to recommend to friends
and relatives along these lines. Well, of course I mean the inferior
strategies available after "install Linux" :-).
Is the user technical? --NO--------------------------------+
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YES | |
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V V V
Is the user paranoid? --NO--> Will Linux Work? --NO--> Get a Mac
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YES YES
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V V
Install OpenBSD Install Linux
But I contest it. Because I have a user who is anything but technical for
whom Linux is working perfectly (and working and working and working ....)
At my last job, we had a sweet old Polish lady who was completely
non-technical, but who adored her Red Hat 8.0 partition and loathed
Windows. We had to use Windows for LookOut, Project, etc. so I
installed PuTTY and Cygwin X so she could keep working on the Linux
servers :-)
I recently (last night) installed Wine because there is a free app. I
want to run that is Windows only. It runs, but there is no text in the
text windows. I know the text is there, because if I select everything
in the window, and copy it into an editor (Kedit, Gedit, vim, etc.) the
text appears fine in the editor.
I wonder, has anyone tried Project, Outhouse, etc. in Wine? I have seen
that M$ Office (not sure which version(s) run under Wine.
PGA
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