[NCLUG] Living without windows? LONG

[Corey Snipes]

In other words, Rich... a corvette is a great car.  If your situation
requires that you loan your car to your mother twice a week, and carry 6
kids to soccer every thursday, keep the minivan.  The corvette is no
less of a car for those reasons -- just a great *second* car.

(:  Corey


> I'd agree with this, actually.  I *love* linux and have been using it as my only home 
> OS for about a year now, but I've had to make a few sacrifices like ignoring most 
> Word and Excel docs, not using MSIE, and the like.  At work I deal with Linux,
> NT, Win2K, BSD, and Solaris servers, but I use Win2k as my primary workstation OS.  
> (I also have a linux box, but it's not my main machine.)  I just found it too 
> difficult to efficiently interact with a MS-powered workplace and MS-powered clients.  
> Everyone loves Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, and saying "hey, could you re-send that 
> attachment as a text-only email?" just got old after the 1056th time.
> 
> Given your VB and Access requirements, and the fact that you have a copy of '98, 
> I'd shell out the bucks for a new drive, put it in the "old castaway project"
> machine, leave your KRUD box as-is, and use 'em both.  (If you've got the space,
> monitors, keyboards, mice, etc.) The dual-boot idea mentioned earlier would
> be great as well.
> 
> Whatever you decide, good luck!
> 
> (Flame suit on!)
> 
> (:  Corey Snipes
>     Boulder, CO, USA
> 
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