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Windows Compatability on the Linux Desktop
davecb writes "O'Reilly has been kind enough to publish one of my
how-to articles,
Windows Compatability for the Linux Desktop, about dealing with that 'one last annoying program
than only runs on Windows'. The answer? Run it under Linux and win4lin, and never venture onto the Windows desktop at all. Especially don't run programs via dual-boot, which tempts you to stay and use all those other wonderful programs like Outlook...
"Same with Project, same with Visio, same with SolarWinds Engineers tool kit, now I'd love open source versions of these..."
The problem here is that you don't want an alternative and "open source" has nothing to do with it. What you want is the thing you already have except without paying for it.
Why not see if Microsoft will do that for you?
Using terminology like "tempts" and the summary implying that you are a better person if you don't boot Windows, once again I am fully convinced that Linux is a religion to far too many people at this site. michael seems like the type of guy that posts every little article he finds on the net that confirms whatever he thinks is true -- "Hey, if its on the Internet, it has to be true!" And when you pat yourself on the back for your choice in an OPERATING SYSTEM then you know you've completely lost touch with reality. I mean, step back a second and look at yourself in the mirror.
Then again, for all these fanboys, it just gives them a bigger cause to live their life for. Hence why I see it as a religion -- it manifests itself as a purpose. They can wake up in the morning and say, "I am making the world a better place by trying to get rid of that EVIL money thing!"
Yes but he is French. The president of the United States had the menus on Air Force One changed so they did not contain nasty words like "french fries" and "french toast".
YOu can be pretty sure republicans would never use anything that came out of france. You'd have to pry their german cars out of their cold dead fingers though.
evil is as evil does
If I switch to that "free" operating system I can run my Windows programs if I buy a $90 program and then do a crapload of configuring.
Or I can just keep running my Windows programs on Windows.
Hmmm. Tough one.
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