On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 09:11, Jack Coates wrote: > On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 07:36, Carroll Grigsby wrote: > > On Monday 20 October 2003 11:02 pm, rikona wrote: > > > Hello Carroll, > > > > > > Sunday, October 19, 2003, 9:16:16 PM, you wrote: > > > >> Two machines, or dual boot? Run MS Publisher only when she MUST do > > > >> it, and run ONLY that on Win. Email, surf, news, etc, in linux. > > > > > > CG> Good advice, but isn't it a litle hypocritical for someone who > > > CG> uses The Bat, a Windows e-mail client? > > > > > > Not from my view. I would DEARLY like to find equals, in linux, for > > > all the software I run, and abandon M$ entirely. Problem is, I like > > > TheBat better than anything I have seen in linux. > > > > > > Much as I dislike M$, I still view the computer as a tool, and will > > > stick with the best tools, even if they happen to run under M$. :-( > > > > Rikona: > > I was just teasing, and no harm was intended. Luckily, I'm in a position where > > I don't _need_ any MS stuff, and sometimes I like to gloat about it. > > -- cmg > > > ... > Hee. I don't let my MS-using cohorts off that easy. The fact is, the > longer I work in this industry, the closer to Stallman my attitude gets. > I'm willing to make sacrifices in order to use free software. Windows is > slower in VMWare than native;
Faster than native in Win4Lin > I don't care, because I only use the > VMWare image when I absolutely have to. OOo is clunkier than MS Office; ooooooh ... try 1.1 it's a world better. It even opens the same day you click on the icon! > so what? It gets the job done, it's open source and it improves by leaps > and bounds with every version since its release to open source. The Bat! > might be a really really good email client, but I can't even imagine how > it could be enough better than Evo for me to use it. > > The flip-side of this attitude is that I get access to apps that blow > their MS counterparts out of the water. Having used Gaim and Trillian > side by side, Trillian is junk, horrible UI. XMMS vs WinAmp? Hello, what > were they thinking at Nullsoft? Evolution next to Outlook is too obvious > for words, even with Evo's rough edges.
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