Harold Fuchs wrote:
I don't have disk space to add a Linux partition and I have too much Windows only hardware - PDA, mobile phone, digital camera, scanner, printer etc. to switch entirely to Linux. I grant that there may be Linux compatible software for each of those but researching it all is too much like hard work. And what do you do when you've switched to Linux and you find your machine won't talk to your router? ***Please*** don't say "Google for relevant software".
I do admit to being somewhat spoiled here. I broke the piggy bank for a new iMac with big drive, maxed the memory, etc. I invested the 80USD in VMWare Fusion and run both Ubuntu and WinXP virtual machines fairly hassle free. Ubuntu is of course free and I happened to have an old retail copy of XP around to install, so that helped too. I find that I do most things (email, internet, photo/music/video) in the Mac OS proper. In the Windows VM I run my favourite Windows only software, synchro stuff for my Palm (the Mac version just isn't as complete), and still (horrors!) an old copy of MS Office. In Ubuntu I indulge my nerdy interests for the Linux command line and C programming, but most of all it is my favourite place to use OOo. With virtualization and my gobs of RAM I can run an XP window Ubuntu window concurrently with the Mac OS and the thing doesn't puff hard unless there is a lot of diskwriting going on.
I obviously love my Mac and if I could get it to fetch me a beer and sandwich I would marry it. This makes it sort of disappointing that the MacOS (now Leopard, but recently Tiger) is my least favourite place to use OOo, and I look to alternatives (NeoOffice, and OOo in a Linux VM). Maybe I need to upgrade X11 as suggested. Better yet, I really hope to see one day the Aqua version of OOo in all of its glory.
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