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- by mswal2846 June 18, 2009 1:56 PM PDT
- I've been "solely" on Linux for about 3 years now. I use the quotes because I've not been able to migrate off of MS Office. I am in consulting and there are just too many people/businesses out there using Office. OpenOffice is getting close, but just isn't there yet ... not for real customer sales presentations, etc where everything needs to be clear and crisp. So what do I do? I use a product called CrossOver from the Code Weaver folks to run MS Office and it runs really well under Ubuntu (and Fedora ... I've run both). There product is quite cheap and runs many windows applications quite well. I'm currently running ubuntu 9.04 (truly a wonderful OS).
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Showing 2 of 2 pages (44 Comments)And to answer the question, would I give Ubuntu to my family? Well, yes, I have. They really only need an OS for internet access and MS Office applications. Ubuntu's look and feel is very intuitive. So to those that say Linux isn't ready yet, I think it is.