I would have to agree!  With exception of Visio and Games there is no reason to run windoze.  I spend my entire day on *nix of some sort.  I have had a couple problems with word docs in star office, just because my job requires me to write insanely complex word docs, but I still use star office and some other windoz user fix the odd formating.  

Dusty


>      I have a windoze desktop next to my Linux portable, but it is 
> mainly relegated to burning CD-Rs and running windoze apps.  I do 
> virtually everything in Linux, so I of course use Linux apps like 
> Quanta, which of course is free.  I use SSH as well, from Linux, and 
> Mozilla for my browser/email instead of from Outlook (no visual basic 
> viruses for me).  I am largely disappointed by the large number of linux 
> enthusiasts who continue to use windoze when a preferable linux 
> alternative exists.  For example, rather than using windoze to move 
> things around windoze networks, I use the various smb utilities, and a 
> wonderful app called linneighborhood that effortlessly finds and browses 
> any windoze domain/workgroup.  I long ago gave up photoshop for Gimp 
> (still haven't gotten the new 1.2 though), Word/WordPro have been 
> replace by Star Office, and the same goes for Excel and Lotus.  The only 
> holdouts: I can't view quicktime files, and I can't proof my HTML in 
> Internet Exploder under Linux.  I've also been too lazy to set up 
> printing to all of our printers on my linux laptop.  For everything 
> else, there's simply NO reason to even boot up in Windoze.
> 
> -Jeff
> 
> 
> Warren Togami wrote:
> 
> > I'd hate to admit it, but yes I too use Frontpage 2000.  (But don't bash me
> > too hard.  I use vi 75% of the time for other things.)
> > I have to admit that Frontpage is damn good for the job and I already have
> > it... came with my computer.  Quick and easy GUI editing for expediance, and
> > a HTML mode when I need it (very often).  Anyone know of a free alternative
> > to Frontpage that works just as well?
> > 
> > And I would have to disagree that Frontpage mangles your code.  That may
> > have been true with Frontpage 97 and Frontpage Express, but 2000 seems to be
> > good in leaving your existing format intact.  Yeah, it isn't perfect, but it
> > isn't very bad like earlier versions.  I find those <DIV> tags annoying.
> > 
> > 
> > Ok, you may now flame me now, but please find me a better (and free) editor.
> > If its any consolation I have three SSH sessions open all the time, and I
> > use Cygwin... and I'll convert away from Outlook Express one day, but for
> > now I'm too lazy.
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
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