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09-04-2003, 01:38 PM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Sep 2003
Location: Ballard (Seattle) WA
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Switching over
OK. I've had it with Win 2K and I'm seriously considering the switch to Linux. I am not a technical person, really just a user. And I don't want to lose MS Word, Excel, Outlook Express and the rest of my MS Office suite. How stupid am I?
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09-04-2003, 01:40 PM
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Senior Member
Registered: Mar 2003
Location: New York, NY
Distribution: Debian Testing
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very intelligent, au contraire. 
u can use the openoffice suit for all that.
start off with a user friendly distro like redhat/mandrake. 9i started with redhat) |
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09-04-2003, 01:41 PM
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Registered: Mar 2003
Location: New York, NY
Distribution: Debian Testing
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umm, its not really alllll that easy, either ... but we're here. |
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09-04-2003, 01:42 PM
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Senior Member
Registered: Apr 2001
Location: Perry, Iowa
Distribution: Mepis , Debian
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just get openoffice, you'll never miss them www.openoffice.org |
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09-04-2003, 02:18 PM
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Member
Registered: Aug 2003
Location: Richmond, Virginia, US
Distribution: Ubuntu 20.04 / Manjaro
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Defenitlly worth the switch Open Office is identical to MS Office and will open all it's files. It comes with RedHat. along with everything else you will ever need. You should try a live ver. first so you can get the feel for linux. Knoppix is good, As long as your cdrom isn't to slow. Keep in mind RH and Mandrake come with alot more software pre-installed.
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09-04-2003, 02:30 PM
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Senior Member
Registered: Dec 2001
Location: 35.7480° N, 95.3690° W
Distribution: Debian, Gentoo, Red Hat, Solaris
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If you're worried about the MS Office products, try Open Office on Windows to get the feel.
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