Well, since you are asking, I don't run Windows. I use Linux exclusively on my desktop at work (Novell SuSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10.0) and at home OpenSuSE 10.2.
I use VMWare Server in both locations to run Windows XP apps that won't run in the Wine environment. I use OpenOffice.org for all of my office suite needs, and Evolution for mail. The only issue that I've come across is that Word '07 documents won't open in ooO, but I'm sure that soon someone will crack open M$'s proprietary encoding, and bring us an import filter for that as well. I'd say, give up on M$. Linux runs faster, lighter, and if you need it, run Borg software in a VM...DON'T BE ASSIMILATED!!! <- reference to STNG for you Trekkies out there. On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 1:19 PM, Gunnar Ekblad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For 2 days I have run my new laptop with vista on it. > I still have a possibilty to go back to XP. > I also have instaled open office. insted of MS-office > From an RBASE point of view vista is almost fine (almost I say since my > national charcters åäö ÅÄÖ dont work in RBASE dos version, never mind I dont > use dos version very much longer) > > Question > Shall I revert back to XP? > Shall I stay with open office and give up MS-Office? > > > > -- John Croson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://pcnorb.blogspot.com/ http://pcnorb.homelinux.org/
