NoOp wrote:
On 11/04/2007 07:59 AM, jonathon wrote:
Possibly easier solution
* Download the Ubuntu 7.04 Live CD.
* Burn to disk.
* Restart your system, with the LiveCD in the CD slot, so that it boots up.
* Open OOo on the Live CD.
* Open the individual Works documents in OOo.
* Save documents to a USB drive in ODF format
* Remove CD from the CD Drive
* Reboot the system
* Restart Windows
xan
jonathon
Are you serious? Here is a person that appears to know little or nothing
about computers and you are suggesting that they magically switch to
linux? BTW: 7.10 is the latest release, and LiveCD *doesn't* work on
many older systems, just booting the LiveCD is like watching the grass
grow in Nebraska in December.
Have to voice a strong agreement with that last statement! Over the
weekend, I decided to give Linux a shot, and tried making the Ubuntu CD
as per instructions (which worked well). Then I booted my computer from
the CD, and it was so incredibly slow that a number of times I thought
that something major must have gone wrong. When I read this, I couldn't
believe that this was being proposed as a "possibly easier solution".
Talk about a recipe for frustration!
Needless to say, my attempt to explore Linux by booting from a CD only
lasted long enough for me to regain control over Linux (around 20
minutes I believe) so I could shut it down! I'm not saying that Linux
isn't a good OS -- only that booting from a CD on my system only led to
frustration, and was apparently not a good example of what Linux is like
(at least I hope it wasn't).
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