Quoting Darrel Pinpin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I am having a hard time looking for windows software counterpart for > linux.
Might I suggest, instead, looking for Linux software that helps you perform _work that you need to perform_? There's a difference, and it's an important one. People tend to limit their perception of computing _is_ to whatever their existing software can easily do. As a consequence, whenever they examine different computing environments by those standards, any alternatives get evaluated in terms of how closely they can imitate what the user is used to, limitations and all. Since any alternative computing platform can at best be an imperfect copy, the inevitable conclusion is that everything else is inferior. Example: LyX (http://www.lyx.org/about/intro.php3). Someone who's willing to try it and see what it can do when used as the sort of tool it _is_ will quickly find that it's really, really cool, and wonder how he lived without it. By contrast, anyone who tries to evaluate any and all document-processing software on the basis of how closely it approximates Microsoft Word will inevitably consider it terrible. Looking from the perspective of an expert in horse-drawn carriages, a 1910 automobile would have looked like a failure: It can't be trained, has extremely unfamiliar controls, doesn't respond to spoken commands, and takes no advantage of readily available blacksmith shops and suppliers of hay fodder in every town. But that's what you get for thinking like a horseman, rather than a driver. What I'm suggesting is having as your _first_ priority helping people think like a Linux user. > This message has been scanned for viruses and > dangerous content, and is believed to be clean. Please see .signature block. -- This message falsely claims to have been scanned for viruses with F-Secure Anti-Virus for Microsoft Exchange and to have been found clean. _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
