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Re: [News] Family Goes All Linux

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suzie.linux@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
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> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>> A year with Linux on the desktop
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>> | The kids have been using Linux for years, so they're happy penguins. I'm a
> 
> Wait until junior brings home SAT prep software from school.
> LSAT prep software from College.
> Mcat software.
> Applications from colleges that require *doc format. Are you REALLY
> going to trust Openoffice translating things correctly?
> I wouldn't.
> Not a chance, it's just too important to trust a free wannabe program
> like OpenOffice to translate properly to MSoffice which 99 out of 100
> is what the admissions dept is running.
> 
> Sorry, Linux is a lost cause.
> 
> Teach your children something they can actually use to interface with
> the rest of the population instead of forcing them to use a system
> that is incompatible with 99 percent of the rest of the earth.

Most stuff like that is web based these days. They don't have to worry
about the releases getting updates etc etc.
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