8 Dec
2003
8 Dec
'03
11:33 a.m.
On Mon, 8 Dec 2003 eviltwin69(a)cableone.net wrote:
Dave,
The one thing that I would do (I had to do this for my wife because she has to have
Excel for her job) is to buy Crossover Office and Crossover plugin so that you can load
Micro$oft Orifice and some nice browser plugins. It's well worth the 70 bucks and
then they don't have to worry about format problems. Of course, you do have to own a
copy of Micro$oft Orifice first ;-) Do you get the feeling that I'm not a big fan of
Micro$oft ;-D
Jan
Bull. For a standard desktop user, flash and java work fine in Mozilla.
I've moved half my family over to Slackware/Mozilla/OpenOffice for the
same reasons the O.P. is doing it. It works fine for all of them, nearly
bulletproof. I've even convinced my Sister (with the help of my nephew) to
use Mozilla for web and email and OO on her XP laptop. Been doing fine for
a year now.
Unless the target user is a really hardcore MS Office user, there is
nothing they'll need CodeWeavers for. If they are, that's a different
story. Just my 2 pfennig.
Sorry for the OT follow-up.
-----Original Message-----
From: "linux-audio-user-bounces(a)music.columbia.edu"
<linux-audio-user-bounces(a)music.columbia.edu> on behalf of "Dave Phillips"
<dlphilp(a)bright.net>
Sent: Mon, 08 Dec 2003 08:39:40 -0500
To: "A list for linux audio users" <linux-audio-user(a)music.columbia.edu>
Subject: Is the Linux desktop really here ? was: Re: [linux-audio-user] ebayguy: looks
like he figured it out
tim hall wrote:
// John Bleichert
// syborg(a)earthlink.net
PS: Watching my nine-year old and various friends
use my system, I'd say the
Linux Desktop for casual users is here, given the availability of technical
support. IMX it's the configuration that is difficult, not the installation &
usage.
Hi Tim:
A few days ago I wrote to the list and recounted a story about setting
up a Windows 2000 system for some
very non-computer-savvy friends of mine. Well, that saga knows no end: I
had to go to their house yesterday
and get it going for them again. It's true that they are *really* in the
dark about their machine, but it's got so
ridiculous that I've decided on a new plan. I'm going to set up a Linux
box for them and see how they do with it.
These people do very little else but use a Web browser (what they call
"the computer") so I want to see just how
hard or easy it would be for them to use a modern Linux system. It'll be
an interesting experiment, and if I have to deal
with the system at least it will be a real OS with real tools and the
real possibility of actually fixing it if it breaks.
Win2K is nice, but what a vacant system ! I can't believe people have
paid so much and received so little in return
for their money.
Anyway, if this experiment works I'll report back to this group. The
folks using this box aren't music/sound people,
but I do plan on setting up XMMS, RealPlayer, and possibly xine or
Mplayer for on-line video feeds. Let me know if
you have any suggestions for making it as easy as possible for them to use.
Best regards,
Dave Phillips