__/ [ thad01@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ] on Wednesday 14 March 2007 16:32 \__
> High Plains Thumper <highplainsthumper@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> They are certainly doing a good job of convincing me of going full
>> time to Linux, that is for sure.
>
> Go for it, you won't regret it. My only copy of Windows is a
> Win2000 install running under VMWare in case I need to do something
> for a client. I don't miss Windows at all. With programs like
> Open Office, MythTV, XMMS, and Wine, I have my Linux systems doing
> all the stuff I previously used a Windows box for... and now they
> do a whole lot more. I have no worries about my systems being
> infected with malware even when my nephew brings his borked
> WindowsXP system behind the firewall.
>
> The girlfriend and I were shopping the other day (picked up a new
> 16 port hub at a CompUSA that was going out of business). Overheard
> a conversation someone was having about 'needing' to buy a copy of
> Vista to replace his unstable copy of WinXP. The girlfriend and I
> just looked at each other and smiled. We are so off of that
> treadmill. :)
I'd second Thad's good advocacy. When I gave up on the last traces of Windows
(98, back in 2005) everything changed for the better. I no longer had
interoperability pains.
I think that HPT needs AutoCAD. CrossOver Office might be able to handle
this, until the program is ported to Linux (it's inevitable).
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