Author: Russell Reagan
Date: 12:04:34 02/12/03
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On February 12, 2003 at 13:07:52, Miguel A. Ballicora wrote: >I am pretty sure that Linux is a good OS but I wonder about some software >written for it. I'd love to go to the Linux world, in fact, I did the first step >installing a dual boot system in my computer. I did the second step too, making >sure that my program Gaviota will run in Linux. However, I still find hurdles >with the software. There are many simple wordprocessors but they look buggy to >me. For instance, the other day they could not print a simple file. >What was the solution? reboot. Hey, at least the experince with MS helps :-) > >I will keep trying despite it is an effort, but... > >Miguel Linux is certainly not on the "user friendly" level of Windows (yet), but give it time. You can get what equates to free MS Office from openoffice.org (assuming your distro didn't come with it), and of course there are good editors like vi and emacs, which allow you to be more efficient if you take the time to learn them. BTW, what distrobution are you using?
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