eadint's Journal: MAC linux and success

I have been using linux since it first came out. at first it was fun to play with and an interesting alturnative to sun or windows. the problem was that eaven thought i have been using linux for a long time i can build modify and do quite a bit. i could not compleatly switch over to linux. the main problem is. the real world uses MSOffice for good or bad. if i want to communicate with it i need to use ms office. when i was looking for a job over half the people i sent my resume to could not read it because th star office filters did not render word correctly. this can be frustrating. and eave though pdf should be a universal standard most people dont eaven know how to open a pdf document. that is just crazy. mac has office and it is unix. the aqua interface is proprietary but thats to be expected. there is nothing that i have not been able to do since i have switched over and i am sill able to do all of the unix stuff that i normally do. i remember i was at a mac store and the teck guy said " yea its all going to be one os ( refering to apple destrying ms and linux)" that was scarry . but as long as doing the simplest tasks are dificult in a linux box it will never take off. when i had a 1000 user base. i toyed with the idea of switching to linux on the desktop. but the nightmare of customer support was just too unbaerable.