On Tue, 2005-02-22 at 17:58 -0800, Nifty Hat Mitch wrote: > On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 07:38:09PM +0000, Pete Choppin wrote: > ..... > > I created a dual-boot Fedora / Windows XP. I am now seriously > > considering going completely 100% Linux and dumping my Windows > > partition entirely. > > > > > The question is - can you live completely without Windows, or do you > > sooner or later have to resort to Windows again? > > The simple answer is that 99 44/100% of the time you can do without. > > The only reason I have had to boot WindowZ in the last year or so was > to tidy up a resume. Sadly there are some human resource departments > (gates) that expect word documents. > And you have a problem creating a word document with OOo? I maintain my resume in OOo, and when I need a word document I simply save it as a .doc file and send it in. > The good news is that the companies worth working for do just fine > with pure text. With care and the corretly chosen TLS on the end of a > filename even a WindowZ user can read the attachment. > > The other sad situation is the ISP tool universe. Too often the best > way to setup an ISP account is from a WindowZ box. Mostly a clever > person can lie^H^H^H translate from Linux to windows to get support. > But you have to know both rather well to do this..... > That is a failing on the part of the ISP, and yes, I know many "don't support Linux". We really need to get them out of that mindset somehow, but I wish I knew how. > > -- > T o m M i t c h e l l > Found me a new place to hang my hat :-) >
