Author: Miguel A. Ballicora
Date: 12:58:48 02/12/03
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On February 12, 2003 at 15:04:34, Russell Reagan wrote: >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? SuSe 8.0, and I am using KDE. I haven't tried some of the "office" options yet. I certainly will. If I find a nice office that export simple word and powerpoint like documents + scientific reference manager (like Endnote in MS and Mac world) + a scientific plotting program (there must be something, some time ago I saw some project to build something like an "OriginTM" program) I could start using Linux as a main OS. What I am doing now is very simple, compiling my chess program, testing it with xboard and scid, editing some of the files, profiling etc. Whatever I do in "console" mode works flawlessly and I am happy with gcc and related tools. But I have to be very careful with what I do with other "friendly tools". I have the option to use 3 or 4 simple editing tools (like notepad or worpad) and none of them satisfied me 100%. The one that is closer to what I expect is Kwrite but still not perfect. Either printing is not correct or something silly is not there, or the font I see in the screen is not the one I see in the printer etc. As you can see, I am not that greedy. I thought that these things would work very well. I will be patient and alert. As a hobby, at home, it is ok. At work, I cannot waste a lot of time. Miguel
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