On Sun January 20 2008 9:17 am, James Knott wrote: > Richard wrote: > > I suspect that many might use it as I do, for all net and surfing time, > > some personal apps, eg gnucash. Still have to keep a copy of Win around > > as I coach swim teams and the software written to manage my team, keep > > times, run meets, manage financials, etc, all run only on Win. > > Have you tried running it under Wine? > > > -- > Use OpenOffice.org <http://www.openoffice.org>
A couple of years ago...to no real success. Would run for a bit, then hang on some missing dll file or something like that. In the middle of running a meet with 300 kids, times of no more than 20 seconds between heats...can't handle little blips that I have to figure out. I am the coach. I set up the computer for others to run since I can do that, but I do not want to leave the deck to handle computer stuff. However unreliable win might be the program that runs on it is solid, stable, forgiving of errors by unsophisticated users, and does not lose data. I need to be able to take a non-program savy mom or dad, show them the program and in less than 10 minutes walk away and have them run it. I do appreciate the suggestion, and just for my own self-satisfaction, may give it a try again some time...but I think that still does not handle the essential issue of so many little apps that right now need win, do not run easily or at all on lin, so difficult to get most common users to switch. For example, when I got my phone I knew some great features would not be available if I did not run win to use them. I said, "fine, I'll do without those features." since I was not going to live in win. How many common win users would say that and then switch to lin just to give up those features, no matter what you might say about its essential stability, etc.? Richard -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
