OT: Linux and OpenOffice

[Ian King]

When I updated my main personal desktop to a quad-core AMD, Microsoft had just discontinued XP, and I couldn't get XP Pro x64.  So, I tried Ubuntu.

That was about three months ago.  I'm still on Ubuntu.  I have three LCD screens, and Xinerama does a pretty good job of managing them.  Evolution is a decent mail client.  Wine runs about half of the Windows apps I used to use, and I've found alternatives for most of the others.  Interestingly, the biggest pain has been the Zune client, which refuses to run on anything but XP or Vista.  (I have a Win2K Server box running my web and mail servers, and Zune just won't install there.)  So I'm configuring VirtualBox, so I can run a virtual XP session to refresh my Zune.

I'm pretty happy with it.
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From: cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org [cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Jim Leonard [trixter at oldskool.org]
Sent: Saturday, September 06, 2008 12:44 AM
To: General at mail.mobygames.com; Discussion@
Subject: Re: OT: Linux and OpenOffice

Tony Mori wrote:
> This will not turn into a pro/con sucks/doesn't suck discussion, as I am
> sure that horse was beaten beyond dead long ago...
> This is just a req to ask for what people are running out there, as a
> suggestion for what I should try.

My wife and young children have found Ubuntu 8.04.1's desktop very easy
to pick up and use; in fact, my wife has switched to it full-time, and
only reboots into Windows when she needs to fill her iPod, then boots
back into Ubuntu.
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