leadfoot's Journal: A reply to Cliff's posting: "What's keeping you on Windows?"

I'm lame and did a cut and paste on my long winded comment within the posting:

Games!!!

Oh, and yes, I have managed to coble together a Linux system with either a free Linux version, in the case of Quake II, or a pieced together version of Wine/WineX/Codeweavers Wine. But, it's MUCH easier to install a decent version of windows, i.e. 2000 or even XP, PLUS whatever game in the same amount of time it takes you to download all the latest patches, updates, tarballs and whatnot needed to even get close to a game running on Linux. Now an opengl accelerated game on Linux? grrrrr

Applications!!!

Face it, everyone uses Microsoft Office. This is a fact. I do feel that this can change, but it will not be overnight, like, the change from WordPerfect to MS Word. If anyone remembers that, you can recall that everyone used WordPerfect, it was THE standard in wordprocessing. Now guess what, Word has completely replaced it, and you know why it replaced it so relatively quickly? I'm not sure with the latest version, but I do recall Word 2.0 up to 2000 being able to open those old Wordperfect files no problem. So, what would need to happen in order for Word to be dethroned? Perhaps a multiplatform, wordprocessor that can open all those legacy Word files. StarOffice? it's getting there. I haven't been able to get Openoffice working yet, but I will give it a try soon, and see how it's progressing. Anyhow, that's just my $.02.

Corporate Standards!!!!

I am forced to use MS Windows at work, due to company policy, but could perform my job equally as well with a Linux workstation. I have even asked if I could install it in a dual boot, but was nixed. So I'll contend with using an Exceed desktop through one of our Unix servers.

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