Hey ... I used it for a while but it was too much trouble... Ask me your question I will be glad to help Well apart from email, the internet and perhaps star office there does not seem too many things to use linux for, other than as a server. I'm trying to use linux, so as to lran about it, with a view to selling it as a stable solution to my customers. who on the most part have problems with workstations but also use windows applications. I myself have tried wine, on my home system, but find it will not run some of my windows apps, quicken will run but has problems and family tree maker just gives up. So am constantly switching from windows to linux and back. It also managed to screw the drive with all my data. Ideally I'd like to get right away from windows not even having it installed on the system. So the real question is if you are not using wine what are you using to run windows apps in linux. Regards Keith Jacobs
One thing you can look at is finding Linux native apps for what you are trying to do. One thing you mentioned is getting Quicken to run in Wine. Depending on what you are using Quicken for there are Linux alternatives - Moneydance or GNUCash for example... both of which can handle QIF files from Quicken. More powerful Linux finantial tools can be found in the software like Kapital from The Kompany. For the most part, I have found the equivalent app in Linux for pretty much everything, and now use it as my day-to-day desktop. The only time I boot back to Windows now is to play games... and even that is dramatically reduced since I installed WineX from Transgaming. All other apps from Office type applications (StarOffice vs MS Office) to graphic manipulation (The GIMP vs Photoshop) to software development (Kylix vs. Delphi) I have Linux tool that does everything I want and need... often more so. C. On Tuesday 28 May 2002 21:13, Keith Jacobs wrote:
Hey ... I used it for a while but it was too much trouble... Ask me your question I will be glad to help
Well apart from email, the internet and perhaps star office there does not seem too many things to use linux for, other than as a server. I'm trying to use linux, so as to lran about it, with a view to selling it as a stable solution to my customers. who on the most part have problems with workstations but also use windows applications.
I myself have tried wine, on my home system, but find it will not run some of my windows apps, quicken will run but has problems and family tree maker just gives up. So am constantly switching from windows to linux and back. It also managed to screw the drive with all my data.
Ideally I'd like to get right away from windows not even having it installed on the system.
So the real question is if you are not using wine what are you using to run windows apps in linux.
Regards Keith Jacobs
Le Mercredi 29 Mai 2002 17:48, Clayton Cornell a écrit / wrote:
For the most part, I have found the equivalent app in Linux for pretty much everything, and now use it as my day-to-day desktop. The only time I boot back to Windows now is to play games... and even that is dramatically reduced since I installed WineX from Transgaming. All other apps from Office type applications (StarOffice vs MS Office) to graphic manipulation (The GIMP vs Photoshop) to software development (Kylix vs. Delphi) I have Linux tool that does everything I want and need... often more so.
Same for me. I am definitively a linux-end-user and for my needs SuSE Linux is great : websurfing, mail, scanning, chat, cd-writing, some office work, and some other stuff. Linux apps are good for me. Francis
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Clayton Cornell
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Francis Allouchery
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Keith Jacobs