A lot of people just don't know about OpenOffice. People will use this because they don't feel like paying for the full thing (MS Office). Sure, they'll mumble and groan about the ads and etcetera, but they'll use it.
This is a great time for OpenOffice to get out there and let the common person know about them. Firefox had ads in the newspaper, why couldn't OOo?
My only question is how long before we see ads in Windows.
I don't believe Microsoft supports Windows 2k anymore, though I may be wrong.
I _do_ know for sure though that Starcraft runs fine in Wine, and Linux has several good MAME emulators. As for web development? Linux has several good Web Design programs. Screem, Bluefish... and Emacs come to mind.:P And almost every distro in existence packages Apache. You could switch and be fairly comfortable right now, though I'm not sure I'd recommend Gentoo for a new user (or any user).
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I never understood why Automatix was necessary. Why not just make a "Proprietary software" repository?
A lot of people just don't know about OpenOffice. People will use this because they don't feel like paying for the full thing (MS Office). Sure, they'll mumble and groan about the ads and etcetera, but they'll use it.
This is a great time for OpenOffice to get out there and let the common person know about them. Firefox had ads in the newspaper, why couldn't OOo?
My only question is how long before we see ads in Windows.
I don't believe Microsoft supports Windows 2k anymore, though I may be wrong.
... and Emacs come to mind. :P And almost every distro in existence packages Apache. You could switch and be fairly comfortable right now, though I'm not sure I'd recommend Gentoo for a new user (or any user).
I _do_ know for sure though that Starcraft runs fine in Wine, and Linux has several good MAME emulators. As for web development? Linux has several good Web Design programs. Screem, Bluefish