On Saturday 11 April 2009 05:26:31 pm James Knott wrote: > Web Kracked wrote: > > NoOp wrote: > >> On 04/10/2009 06:05 PM, Web Kracked wrote: > >> ... > >> > >>> Tim L. > >>> retired and tired of MS, and the other bloated paid software. > >> > >> Sorry for drifting off topic here, but couldn't help notice your last > >> line. Why put that there when you are clearly using Windows: > > > > I have to use Windows for some of the programs I > > HAVE TO use every day or week. > > > > If I could free up a PC or Laptop, I would load a > > Linux distro to it and re-learn how to use it. > > > > But until I no longer am required to use Windows, > > I will have to keep on using it. > > If you have sufficient disk space, you can have both Linux & Windows on > the same computer. That way, you only have to boot Windows to use those > apps that won't run on Linux. Incidentally, many Windows apps can run > on Linux, by using a utility called "wine" or Crossover Office, which is > a commercial implementation of wine. One thing I do, is create a FAT32 > partition, which I move my "My Documents" folder to. This partition can > be written to by both Linux & Windows, so you can share files between > the two operating system. Only problem I ran into with the above mentioned wine and crossover office solution is neither would run TurboTax, they had problems with the lenght of file names. I installed VirualBox from SUN and it ran my tax software (TurboTax) both last year and this error free. I presently have version 2.1.4 installed and have not tested TTax with the new 2.2 yet.
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