Find me one in the USofA that is Linux centric.
I went to Linux desktops about 2002 because M/S was not going to
put USB drivers into NT 4.0 at midlife. Suse Linux 7 something
in a box did not install very well. So I went off to Lindows.
Then Linspire and finally back to Suse Linux. I wanted to go off
to OS/2, but IBM had some issue where you needed their BIOS so I
was unable to get the Red or Blue version of OS/2 to install on
any system I built. I just didn't have the money for a PS2 system
to make OS/2 happy.
I have gotten nothing but grief from family because M/S Office
does this, and Word does that. Open Office became Libre Office....
So having used Wordstar, Wordstar 2000 (what a disaster), Word,
Word Perfect, etc. I kind of know their differences.
Today, I prefer Libre Office and FF with Thunderbird as opposed
to M/S products that all want me to use their cloud so that I am
beholding to them.
And when V-Box and Suse are being nice to/with each other, I run
W7 or whatever under Linux.
But no customer that I've had uses Linux for their office
systems. It is all Outlook and M/S Office.
Oh and now my children are glad I introduced them to Linux desk
tops because they can work on almost any system. Oh and they
complained about being taught to drive a stick too. Until they
needed that skill one day....
Steve Thompson
On 8/15/2023 10:03 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
On Tue, 15 Aug 2023 16:58:27 -0400, Bob Bridges wrote:
... My little sister reminds me from time to time that OpenOffice is just
as good, but I don't want to write something for a client and then find out
that it isn't QUITE the same as the real thing.
"Real thing" depends on point of view. What if your client is Linux-centric?
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