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Close, but not quite there yet...
Well, the Linux experiment is mostly over.
CrossOver Office [the application that runs Windows software on a Linux OS] is just too buggy. Quicken and Outlook both functioned sporadically at best. We uninstalled CX Office and are still debating the future of XandrOS at Rancho Gaz.
For now, we are using XandrOS for surfing and then restarting into Windows for everything else. That is a pain, so I do not expect that to go on much longer. We have an old computer that we use for music [hooked up to the stereo and running Winamp]. I am trying to convince Mrs. Gaz to buy an old laptop for that purpose and re-task the music computer as a dedicated surfing machine running XandrOS. The idea of buying a third computer is not yet floating Mrs. Gaz's boat.
As much as I want to dump Windows, Linux is not ready to be the exclusive Rancho Gaz desktop at this time.
However, I want to reiterate my admiration for XandrOS as a Windows replacement for those of you who do not require Windows applications. Open Office works just as well as Microsoft Office. Thunderbird is not as good as Outlook, IMO, but if all you want is an email application [as opposed to synching a PPC, for example] it is perfectly adequate.
Maybe further on down the road, I can give Windows the heave-ho.
xoxo~
Gaz
Crawling back to Microsoft.
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