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    Default Re: Bah! Viruses.

    Quote Originally Posted by johnwash1 View Post
    ....Linux is not for everyone, but it amazes me that so many people still haven't heard of it, or pass by without trying it.
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    Default Re: Bah! Viruses.

    I live in a university town that had a Linux club many years ago.
    I attended a few meetings and forgot about them.
    Now I wish they were still around, alas the club folded.
    Real shame as there were some very knowledgeable people there..

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    Default Re: Bah! Viruses.

    Quote Originally Posted by johnwash1 View Post
    Thanks for that link, That link might prove handy when I get stuck :-)

    I am in progress of getting rid of all windows (except XP one) just now. We are fed up of bloat/security stuff delays/not doing whats its told when its told/ and why does it take 7 twice as long just to copy my pictures than XP does lol

    Im trying xubuntu just now, and so far have got it all to work no probs, even got MS office to work in wine, untill I decide which open source office to use.

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    A bit like eBid then!
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    Quote Originally Posted by MelmacALF View Post
    Thanks for that link, That link might prove handy when I get stuck :-)

    I am in progress of getting rid of all windows (except XP one) just now. We are fed up of bloat/security stuff delays/not doing whats its told when its told/ and why does it take 7 twice as long just to copy my pictures than XP does lol

    Im trying xubuntu just now, and so far have got it all to work no probs, even got MS office to work in wine, untill I decide which open source office to use.
    Even for people who stay with Windows, there are alternatives to MS Office. Open Office got mired in politics when Oracle took over Sun (Oracle didn't 'get' what open source was all about and how to treat developers). So it was 'forked' and Libre Office is now significantly ahead of Open Office. It's completely free and it reads and writes MS files.

    But while it's a good alternative for the majority of users, there are incompatibilities. For example, if you write ambitious macros in Excel it's likely you use functions that aren't available.

    It's worth a try. Alas there are many users who just stick a ring in their nose and let MS walk them to the bank. I've seen people who use MS Word to do no more than write single page letters with it, yet will pay out for upgrades from Office 2003 to 2007 to 2010! What a waste of money!

    Glad you like Xubuntu. It's not as blingy as Ubuntu, but it does the job and does it very fast and in a lot less ram.
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