Free Linux and OpenOffice - even if your email address doesn't

[Gordon J. C. Pearce]

On Sun, 2008-08-31 at 20:40 -0400, Tony Mori wrote:

> Dang right - I have ENOUGH trying to support them on Windows.
> Besides, As I've said, you CANNOT play current games on Linux.
> <sigh>

Funny, I'm having a lot of fun with ET:Quake Wars with its native Linux
port.


> That doesn't mean Linux is not usable for home users - it's just that
> *I* 
> don't need that extra headache.
> Personal choice - grin and bear it.

That's why I could never in good conscience recommend Windows to an
inexperienced computer user, either.  I get enough phone calls about
stupid stuff.
> 
> You know, you've been gritting me on going back and forth, and you're doing 
> the same thing.
> There is NO activation in corporate environments - Home, yes. Corporate, no.

That's one of the reasons I would never recommend Windows.


> Um, seriously, have you put the Linux and XP versions of the EEE PC next to 
> each other, and seen them both?
> I mean the REAL thing, not surfing - looks like you don;t get out much... I 
> mean the REAL hardware LIVE.
> 
> I will STAND by what I said - the Linux version looks like a toy.
> Does that mean Linux sucks, as you seem to get from that.
> Um, no.

Riiiiight.   So XP's cartoon dogs and Teletubby background and garish
clown-suit colour scheme don't look toy-like to you?

I would be, quite frankly, *embarrassed* to be seen using XP in a
professional environment.

> Lemme write it in crayon for you...
> 
> The linux distribution, and gui, on the EEE PC which comes with linux, is 
> not a very graphically "nice" implementation.

Uh-huh.  And Windows, with its car crash of different widgets and bright
Fisher-Price colours is somehow better?

> Um, again, you're haveing reading comprehension issues.
> When did I say I haven't touched it since then?
> I PLAINLY said MULTIPLE times, that we run RHEL at the office. We're getting 
> support plans for it.
> I mean, seriously, what is it that you are having trouble comprehending?
> I started using Linux about 1995, and haven't stopped since.
> Would I put it on my wife or kids machine?
> HELL no - I know better.
> First, my kids would be ticked, because they couldn't run steam, or GWAR, or 
> any number of other games.

I run Steam under Crossover.  I haven't had any significant problems,
and certainly none that Windows-using friends haven't had.  Steam *is*
pretty flaky.

Gordon