On Nov 17, 7:46 pm, Roy Schestowitz <newsgro...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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> ____/ DanS on Sunday 18 November 2007 00:09 : \____
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> > suzie.li...@xxxxxxxxx wrote in
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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
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> >> Wait until junior brings home SAT prep software from school.
> >> LSAT prep software from College.
> >> Mcat software.
> >> Applications from colleges that require *doc format.
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> > Pretty much the only _application_ that requires .doc format is Word. And
> > even then Word will open other format files as well, so Word doesn't even
> > _require_ .doc files.
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> >> 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.
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> > That's what virtual machines are for.
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> You people are replying to Gary Stewart. It's a troll that changes his name all
> the time (suzie.li...@xxxxxxxxx this time).
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> Filter that out, but it will keep coming back with new fake names and posting
> from a proxy.
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> ~~ Best of wishes
Possibly, but not a single person has been able to offer a rebuttal to
what he is saying.
Sounds like you whining Linux screws need some grease.
People want applications, they don't care about an operating system.
In fact most don't even know what an operating system is.
Windows has the applications people use and need.
Linux does not.
It's that simple.
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