On Mon, 2003-09-08 at 22:53, Sayth wrote: > Is mandrake 9 and win4lin a good option, the only thing I need windows > for is my girlfriends MSn messenger, Shogun Total war and MS Excel.
I don't use Mandrake, but a lot of people on this list do, and recommend it strongly, especially for new users. Finding help shouldn't be a problem. :-) Depending on what you use MSN for, you might find one of the many Linux clients suitable. My personal favourite is gaim (http://gaim.sourceforge.net/). Otherwise Win4Lin should run it just fine. Win4Lin will run Excel without any problems. Also worth looking at is Crossover Office (http://codeweavers.com/products/office/), which will probably run significantly faster than Win4Lin, and supports Excel. And again, I haven't had any problems opening Excel files in Linux spreadsheet programs; gnumeric (http://gnumeric.org/) is very good, as is OpenOffice (http://openoffice.org/) for a broader Office replacement. I don't know if this is still true, but Win4Lin used to have problems with DirectX, so Shogun is probably out of the question. I'm not sure if/how you'd be able to get it running in Linux. Good luck, -- Pete -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
